My whole life has been spent walking by the side of a bottomless chasm, jumping from stone to stone. Sometimes I try to leave my narrow path and join the swirling mainstream of life, but I always find myself drawn inexorably back towards the chasm's edge, and there I shall walk until the day I finally fall into the abyss.
Edvard Munch
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"Two souls and one thought only
... E.F.J. VON MUNCH BELLINGHAUSEN ("FRIEDRICH HALM") Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one. E F J VON MUNCH-BELLINGHAUSEN