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Mogę się zabić, ale na myśl, że mógłbym nie istnieć wcale, zimno mi się robi z przerażenia.
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The speaker draws a sharp distinction between ending life and never existing at all. The first is described as something they can imagine doing; the second inspires overwhelming terror. The contrast gives the quote its force: nonexistence is presented not as ordinary death, but as the frightening loss of the possibility of being altogether.
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