The author believes a person’s existence:

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An individual human existence should be like a river – small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past rocks over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the water flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become part of the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being. Bertrand Russell (1872 – 1970), English mathematician, philosopher, writer and pacifist.