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" Nothing is more dreadful in life than the profound thought that death may only greet you with eternal nothingness. "

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" He who doesn't fear death dies only once. "

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" The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour. "

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