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It is thus, if there is any rule, that we ought to die--neither as victim nor as fanatic, but as the seafarer who can greet with an equal eye the deep that he is entering, and the shore that he must leave.

E. M. Forster
Eye, Entering, Victim
E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.603, Delphi Classics
It is thus, if there is any rule, that we ought to die--neither as victim nor as fanatic, but as the seafarer who can greet with an equal eye the deep that he is entering, and the shore that he must leave.