“Life is the gathering of waves to a head, at death they break into a million fragments each one of which, however, is absorbed at once into the sea of life and helps to form a later generation which comes rolling on till it too breaks.”

—  Samuel Butler

Birth and Death, ii
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part I - Lord, What is Man?

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novelist 1835–1902

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