Source: Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
“Only the feeble resign themselves to final death and substitute some other desire for the longing for personal immortality. In the strong the zeal for perpetuity overrides the doubt of realizing it, and their superabundance of life overflows upon the other side of death.”
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913)
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