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“I begged her not to leave me. I begged her to stay and help me bear my life.”
― Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, The Gates Ajar or Our Loved Ones in Heaven

“He believed, you know, that it takes a material body, a spiritual body, and a soul, to make a man. Death is simply the slipping off of the outer body, as a husk slips off from its kernel. The deathless frame stands ready then for the soul's untrammeled occupation.”
― Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, The Gates Ajar or Our Loved Ones in Heaven

“Being only out of sight, you remember, not lost, nor asleep, nor annihilated, he goes on loving. To love must mean to think of, to care for, to hope for, to pray for, not less out of a body than it.”
― Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, The Gates Ajar or Our Loved Ones in Heaven

“In order that I might truly face the sun, the world itself must be destroyed.”
― Yukio Mishima, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion