Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist
Antithesis
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part IV - Memory and Design
“It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that is purloined.”
— Arundhati Roy, book The God of Small Things
Source: The God of Small Things
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Vita enim mortuorum in memoria vivorum est posita.
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Source: Philippicae – Philippics (44 BC)
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