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History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.

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...is not all philosophy but preparation for a serene dying?

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History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place.

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But like so many others nowadays, poor Julian wanted to believe that man's life is profoundly more significant than it is. His sickness was the sickne...more

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Life will be wonderful when men no longer fear dying. When the last superstitions are thrown out and we meet death with the same equanimity as life. N...more

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Of course his dust would be absorbed in other living things and to that degree at least he would exist again, though it was plain enough that the spec...more