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I work all the time. It gives me the illusion that I am younger and will not die.
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The speaker says that working constantly makes them feel as though they are still young and somehow beyond death. Calling this feeling an “illusion” shows that work offers only a temporary sense of youth and safety, not a real escape from aging or mortality.
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