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As always the thought of his own death calmed him as much as that of others disturbed him: was it perhaps because, when all was said and done, his own death would in the first place mean that of the whole world?

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
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Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1960). “The Leopard”, Pantheon Books
As always the thought of his own death calmed him as much as that of others disturbed him: was it perhaps because, when all was said and done, his own death would in the first place mean that of the whole world?