“There are no ghosts, my love. Death is final. The soul is that ineffable combination of memory and personality which we carry through life…when life departs, the soul also dies. Except for what we leave in the memory of those who loved us.”

—  Dan Simmons, book The Rise of Endymion

Source: The Rise of Endymion (1997), Chapter 27 (p. 578)

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