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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
-Damien Hirst
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The Goal In Life Is To Be

Damien Hirst
The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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You yourself create all your misery, hour after hour, day after day. you think the goal justifies the means, even the vile means. you are wrong: the goal is in the path on which you arrive at it. every step of today is your life of tomorrow. no great goal can be reached by vile means. that you have proven in every social revolution. the vileness or inhumanity of the path to the goal makes you vile or inhuman, and the goal unattainable.
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When a liver becomes cirrhotic, those are the common complications. we see that the patients have bleeding from their stomach and intestines. they have abdomens that become full of fluid. their ankles swell with the same type of fluid, and they also can become confused and not themselves. those are kind of the main things that we see when people get end-stage liver disease and have cirrhosis.
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