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Man is an animal that has to do something about his
ephemerality. He wants to overcome and be able to say,
"You see, I've made a contribution to life. I've advanced
life, I've beaten death, I've made the world pure." But
this creates an illusion. The dynamic of evil is the attempt
to make the world other than it is, to make it what it cannot
be, a place free from accident, a place free from impurity, a
place free from death.
-- Ernest Becker
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