"Death is the only monastery; the tomb is the only cell, and the grave that adjoins the convent is the bitterest mock of its futility."

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I often wish for the end of the wretched remnant of my life; and that wish is a rational one; but then the innate principle of self-preservation, wisely implanted in our natures, for obvious purposes, opposes that wish, and makes us endeavour to spin out our thread as long as we can, however decayed and rotten it may be.

— Lord Chesterfield