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memento mori

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
memento mori /mɪˌmɛntəʊ ˈmɔːri, -rʌɪ/

▶noun (pl. same) an object kept as a reminder that death is inevitable.

– origin L., lit. ‘remember (that you have) to die’.

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