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I think that life would suddenly seem wonderful to us if we were threatened to die as you say. Just think of how many projects, travels, love affairs,...more

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People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura oflife which bears no relation to true immortality but through which theycon...more

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Now there is one thing I can tell you: you will enjoy certain pleasures you would not fathom now. When you still had your mother you often thought of ...more

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The being that I shall be after death has no more reason to remember the man I have been since my birth than the latter to remember what I was before ...more

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And so it is with our own past. It is a labour in vain to recapture it: all the efforts of our intellect must prove futile. The past is hidden somewhe...more

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And the others too were beginning to remark in Swann that abnormal, excessive, shameful and deserved senescence of bachelors, of all those for whom it...more

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It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.

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Let an illness, a duel, a runaway horse make us see death face to face, and how richly we should have enjoyed the life of pleasure, the travels in unk...more

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We may, indeed, say that the hour of death is uncertain, but when we say so we represent that hour to ourselves as situated in a vague and remote expa...more

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No doubt my books too, like my mortal being, would eventually die, one day. But one has to resign oneself to dying. One accepts the thought that in te...more