“ Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading. ”
- W. H. Auden- Copy
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“ Why so large a cost, having so short a lease, does thou upon your fading mansion spend? ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat. ”
- Julian Huxley- Copy
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“ Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name! ”
- Walter Savage Landor- Copy
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“ Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not. ”
- Epicurus- Copy
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“ I cannot forgive my friends for dying; I do not find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing. ”
- Logan Pearsall Smith- Copy
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