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Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box.
Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box.
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.
Everybody dies. Not everybody ever really lives.
Everybody dies. Not everybody ever really lives.
The idea is to die young as late as possible.
The idea is to die young as late as possible.
Death-the last voyage, the longest and the best.
Death-the last voyage, the longest and the best.
To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or read more
To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or guess at anything but that world is not merely hell but the only possible damnation: the act of a man damning himself. It may be -- I hope it is -- redemption to guess and perhaps perceive that the universe, the hell which we see for all its beauty, vastness, majesty, is only part of a whole which is quite unimaginable.
Most people would rather die than think;
in fact, they do so.
Most people would rather die than think;
in fact, they do so.
As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.
As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.