“What of immortality, that last refuge of those who have known too few pleasures and too many…”
“What of immortality, that last refuge of those who have known too few pleasures and too many…”

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“What of immortality, that last refuge of those who have known too few pleasures and too many sufferings, and who dream of finding some compensation in another world? It is easy to understand how people who have grown up in prejudice and with but little confidence in science, which has so often deceived them, people who are led by feeling rather than thought, reject an explanation which takes from them their last hope.”

Peter Kropotkin, Anarchist Morality

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