“I don't think victory over death… is anything so superficial as a person fulfilling their normal span of life. It can be twofold; a victory over death by the man who faces it for himself without fear, and a victory by those who, loving him, know that death is but a little thing compared with the fact that he lived and was the kind of person he was.”
Source: Testament of Youth (1933), Chapter 12 [quoting a 1924 letter]
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Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 536

“Please keep your victory
But give me little death.”
"The Apocalypse Song"
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Context: All your praying moments amount to just one breath.
Please keep your victory
But give me little death.

Lecture XXX, Atheism alone a Positive View
Lectures on the Essence of Religion http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/feuerbach/works/lectures/index.htm (1851)