“ You are an undertaker. Your business is with the dead. All the time your life is about what is over. Everything that you are is about what is already over. So because you are an undertaker you will live in a certain jumpy condition. ”
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1VH_UHeZko
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