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The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality.

The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality.

George Santayana
Facts, Immortality, Born
George Santayana (2009). “The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress”, p.805, The Floating Press

... even if Lucretius was wrong, and the soul is immortal, it is nevertheless steadily changing its interests and its possessions.Our lives are mortal if our soul is not; and the sentiment which reconciled Lucretius to death is as much needed if we are to face many deaths, as if we are to face only one.

George Santayana
Soul, Faces, Immortality
George Santayana (1936). “The Works of George Santayana”

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