“After the first death, there is no other.”
" A Refusal To Mourn The Death, By Fire, Of A Child In London http://www.poetryconnection.net/poets/Dylan_Thomas/1093", st. 4 (1946)
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“Either no feeling remains to the soul after death, or death itself matters not at all.”
Aut nihil est sensus animis a morte relictum
aut mors ipsa nihil.
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Book III, line 39 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia
