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“He lay still, closed his eyes, and let the tide of things wash over him.”
― Willa Cather, Paul's Case

“...[F]orgetfulness of the disagreeable things of this life implies forgetfulness of the pleasant ones. They are all tangled together.”
― Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, The Gates Ajar or Our Loved Ones in Heaven

“Eternity will never become monotonous.”
― 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