If,when we interpret the claim everyone dies alone, that just ends up being a slightly pretentious way of saying everyone dies, we might say,oh yeah,that is true and it is a necessary truth, but it's not especially surprising.

如果我们对每个人都孤独而死的诠释，只是装模作样地说明人终有一死，那我们会说，这是真理，也是必要的，但并没有什么好惊奇的。

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But, reader, you will need time, a stomach for the pretentious, and a very hearty appetite.

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"It would be very pretentious for a cardinal to say, 'I am prepared, '" Scherer said.

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Even more than Assange, too, Zuckerberg guides where we are going next, as, yes this sounds pretentious, a civilization.

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