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“ The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass. ”
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“ Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
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“ The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing. ”
- Michel de Montaigne- Copy
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