The removal of the desire for immortality ..., a human strategy, aphorism 495

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The removal of the desire for immortality constitutes the step higher. One step reached assumes that another must be left behind, and what is it really that we leave behind? An error ... the truth being that neither everlasting life nor death pertains to the essential problem of this life. Reality as we know it, with the single addition of immortality, would simply be a re-interpretation of the old problem, our insignificance rephrased: “What is significant about this everlasting reality?”

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