The value of life originates from the fact that we each have only one chance. Life is irreversible, unique, unpredictable, and it has been appropriately endowed. Its significance can never be truly understood. It is a vehicle, and only death can bring about its end. Sympathy is a valuable attribute in all humans, for it allows us to integrateour personal feelings with those of others and our surroundings. Sympathy is the foundation of confidence, communication, understanding, and other desires. A world without sympathy is an inhuman world; a world without without smiles or song is a callous and syffocating world. Such a world is necessarily filled with dread, suspicion, jealousy, hatred - it is humanity's final hour...

Ai Wei Wei

Life, Crime, and Death 2007

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