“To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.”
Jorge Luis Borges book Deutsches Requiem
"Deutsches Requiem" as translated by Julian Palley (1958)
“I’ll know how to die with courage; that is easier than living.”
Act II.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
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