“It's necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.”
Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
“It wasn’t a death wish. It was a see-how-close-you-can-get-and-live wish.”
Source: The Ramal Extraction (2012), Chapter 12
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