Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free. Over time, some have determined that the only way to live is to die. In death, a man or a woman is free of the weight of the past [and the future].


Einstein's Dreams (ed. Pantheon, 1993)

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Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free. Over time, some have determined that the only way to live is to die. In...

Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free. Over time, some have determined that the only way to live is to die. In...

Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free. Over time, some have determined that the only way to live is to die. In...

Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free. Over time, some have determined that the only way to live is to die. In...