“There are few things easier than to live badly and to die well.”
Oscar Wilde Vera; or, The Nihilists
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“To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.”
— Jorge Luis Borges, book Deutsches Requiem
"Deutsches Requiem" as translated by Julian Palley (1958)
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