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What does it mean?
Living with pride is essential; death removes the capacity to care about such things.
In plain terms
Be proud while alive.
What can you take from it?
Pride matters only while alive.

Where it applies

  • resistance
  • personal struggle

Putting it to work

  • self-assertion
  • activism

Questions to consider

  • Why choose pride?
  • What matters after death?

Another view

Legacy lives on after death.

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