“Copulation is no more foul to me than death is.”
Source: Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition
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Muhammad al-Taqi (811–835) ninth of the Twelve Imams of Twelver Shi'ism
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Emilio De Bono (1866–1944) Italian General
Quoted in "Mussolini: Twilight and Fall" - Page 129 - by Roman Dąbrowski - Italy - 1956
“Reproduction is more pleasurable than death.”
Herman E. Daly (1938) American economist
“How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.”
Will Durant (1885–1981) American historian, philosopher and writer
Source: The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
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Quoted in W. Lyon Blease, "Suvorof," 1926.