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“Death is a mere human dream—a comforting fancy; it has no real existence-there is nothing in the Universe but life! O hideous misery!-I cannot die!”
― Marie Corelli, The Sorrows of Satan; Or The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire; a Romance Volume 2

“Those who crusade not for God in themselves but against the devil in others, never succeed in leaving the world better, but leave it as it was or sometimes even perceptibly worse than it was before the crusade began.”
― Aldous Huxley, The Devils of Loudun

“I love myself and loathe myself more than other men. One of these excesses attracts women, but which?”
― John Updike, A Month of Sundays

“Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, A Very Easy Death