“The bedrock of doubt is the total nothingness of death. Death is a leveler, not because everybody dies, but because nobody understands what death means.”

Source: "Quotes", The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (1982), Chapter 8, p. 230

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Canadian literary critic and literary theorist 1912–1991

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