“There's night and day, brother, both sweet things; sun, moon, and stars, brother, all sweet things; there's likewise a wind on the heath. Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die?”

—  George Borrow, book Lavengro

Source: Lavengro (1851), Ch. 25

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