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Mario Puzo

What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.

Mario Puzo

Death

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Mario Puzo suggests that what we call sensitivity is actually just a more advanced form of fear rooted in our animal instincts. He argues that our true tragedy lies in an unconscious desire for death, rather than in the suffering we experience.

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