“Donkeys live a long time. None of you has ever seen a dead donkey.”
George Orwell book Animal Farm
Source: Animal Farm
“Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead.”
— Michel De Montaigne, book Essays
Book I, Ch. 20
Essais (1595), Book I
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