The philosopher Martin Heidegger once said, “Every man is born as many men and dies a single one.” There are a handful of preferences shared by almost all infants—for example, for sweet foods and harmonies without dissonance. But adult tastes are diverse, in large part because they’re shaped by the experience of life, and each person enjoys and suffers life in a different way. People are born average and die unique.
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