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“Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Electra, 1007.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 04e61f4a10d942a7d4e3adaa41e4d7d6bf9fe751479666bc8813f7655c6887ad
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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