"Like vanishing dew, a passing apparition or the sudden flash of lightning -- already gone -- thus should one regard one's self."

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I was trying to cheat death. I was only trying to surmount for a little while the darkness that all my life I surely knew was going to come rolling in on me some day and obliterate me. I was only to stay alive a little brief while longer, after I was already gone.

— Cornell Woolrich