Man does not die. Man imagines that it is death that he fears; but what he fears is the unforeseen, the explosion. What man fears is himself, not death. When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter. The body is an old crock that nobody will miss. I have never known a man to think of himself when dying. Never.
(Quoted from page 107 of Flight to Arras, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Harcourt, 1942.)
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