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The monument of death will outlast the memory of the dead. The Pyramids do not tell the tale which was confided to them; the living fact commemorates itself.

Henry David Thoreau
Memories, Pyramids, Facts
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.549, Simon and Schuster
The monument of death will outlast the memory of the dead. The Pyramids do not tell the tale which was confided to them; the living fact commemorates itself.