And that must end us, that must be our cure: To be no more. Sad cure! …

John Milton
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And that must end us, that must be our cure: To be no more. Sad cure! For who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish, rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night Devoid of sense and motion? ✨ 'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 2, l. 146
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