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Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in just the way in which our visual field has no limits.

- Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921) [full text]

There is always after the death of anyone a kind of stupefaction; so difficult is it to grasp this advent of nothingness and to resign ourselves to believe in it.

- Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary (1857) [full text]