“The Pyrenees have ceased to exist.”
Louis XIV of France (1638–1715) King of France and Navarra, from 1643 to 1715
Il n'y a plus de Pyrénées.
On his grandson becoming King of Spain, quoted in Voltaire, Le Siècle de Louis XIV (1751), ch.28
“When I have ceased to exist, I won’t ever have existed.”
Voces (1943)
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“In exile one is nothing but a ghost ... I ceased to exist when I went into exile.”
Reinaldo Arenas (1943–1990) Cuban poet/novelist/playwright
Source: From Arenas’ work Before Night Falls (as quoted in “On Exile and the Longing for Home: Cuban Writer Reinaldo Arenas” https://www.huffpost.com/entry/on-exile-and-the-longing-_b_4451017; 2014 Feb 18)
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“When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961-1991 (1991), Angelina (recorded 1981)
“It is unnecessary, for the Republic has never ceased to exist. I was the Republic.”
Charles de Gaulle (1890–1970) eighteenth President of the French Republic
Reply in August 1944 to a statement of regret that the windows of the Hotel de Ville in Paris were not opened for the crowd outside cheering the reestablishment of the Republic. Quoted in The Atlantic, November 1960.
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