Death
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It has been well said: "Death and death alone is what we must consult about life; and not some vague future or survival, in which we shall not be present. It is our own end; and everything happens in the interval between death and now. Do not talk to me of those imaginary prolongations which wield over us the childish spell of number; do not talk to me-to me who am to die outright-of societies and peoples! There is no reality, there is no true duration, save that between the cradle and the grave. The rest is mere bombast, show, delusion! They call me a master because of some magic in my speech...
Chapters (124)
- DEATH
- MAURICE MAETERLINCK
- TRANSLATED BY
- ALEXANDER TEIXEIRA DE MATTOS
- NEW YORK
- DODD, MEAD & COMPANY
- 1912
- CONTENTS
- DEATH I
- OUR IDEA OF DEATH
- II
- A PRIMITIVE IDEA
- III
- WE MUST ENLIGHTEN AND ESTABLISH OUR IDEA OF DEATH
- IV
- WE MUST RID DEATH OF THAT WHICH GOES BEFORE
- V
- THE PANGS OF DEATH MUST BE ATTRIBUTED TO MAN ALONE
- VI
- THE MISTAKE OF THE DOCTORS IN PROLONGING THE PANGS OF DEATH
- VII
- THEIR ARGUMENTS
- VIII
- THAT WHICH DOES NOT BELONG TO DEATH
- IX
- THE HORRORS OF THE GRAVE ALSO DO NOT BELONG TO DEATH
- X
- WHEN CONTEMPLATING THE UNKNOWN INTO WHICH DEATH HURLS US, LET US FIRST PUT RELIGIOUS FEARS FROM OUR MINDS
- XI
- ANNIHILATION IMPOSSIBLE
- XII
- THE SURVIVAL OF OUR CONSCIOUSNESS
- XIII
- IT SEEMS IMPOSSIBLE
- XIV
- THE SAME, CONTINUED
- XV
- IF IT WERE POSSIBLE, IT WOULD NOT BE DREADFUL
- XVI
- THE SURVIVAL WITHOUT CONSCIOUSNESS
- XVII
- THE SAME, CONTINUED
- XVIII
- THE LIMITED EGO WOULD BECOME A TORTURE
- XIX
- A NEW EGO CAN FIND A NUCLEUS AND DEVELOP ITSELF IN INFINITY
- XX
- THE ONLY SORROW THAT CAN TOUCH OUR MIND
- XXI
- INFINITY AS CONCEIVED BY OUR REASON
- XXII
- INFINITY AS PERCEIVED BY OUR SENSES
- XXIII
- WHICH OF THE TWO SHALL WE KNOW?
- XXIV
- THE INFINITY WHICH BOTH OUR REASON AND OUR SENSES CAN ADMIT
- XXV
- OUR FATE IN INFINITY
- XXVI
- THE SAME, CONTINUED
- XXVII
- SHALL WE BE UNHAPPY THERE?
- XXVIII
- QUESTIONS WITHOUT ANSWERS
- XXIX
- THE SAME, CONTINUED
- XXX
- IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO ANSWER THEM
- XXXI
- EVERYTHING MUST FINISH EXEMPT FROM SUFFERING
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