Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it be…

Mark Twain
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Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred million years --and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together. ✨ Autobiography ch. 49 (1959)
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