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“Death, like generation, is a secret of Nature.”
Book IV • Marcus Aurelius“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
The Portrait of Mr. W. H. • Oscar Wilde“"The first thing he wanted to do was get the lower part of his body out of the bed, but he had never seen this lower part, and could not imagine what it looked like."”
Metamorphosis and Other Stories • Franz Kafka“Every woman while she would be ready to die of shame if surprised in the act of generation, nonetheless carries her pregnancy without a trace of shame and indeed with a kind of pride. The reason is that pregnancy is in a certain sense a cancellation of the guilt incurred by coitus; thus coitus bears all the shame and disgrace of the affair, while pregnancy, which is so intimately associated with it, stays pure and innocent and is indeed to some extent sacred.”
Essays and Aphorisms • Arthur Schopenhauer“Respect the faculty that forms thy judgments.”
Book III • Marcus Aurelius