Death we can face: but knowing, as some of us do, what is h… - Thomas de Quincey

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Death we can face: but knowing, as some of us do, what is human life, which of us is it that without shuddering could (if consciously we were summoned) face the hour of birth?

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Thomas Penson De Quincey (August 15, 1785 – December 8, 1859) was an English essayist and intellectual.

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ما فائدة الكلام عندما يكون العالم كله ضدك ص 7

During the former part of my sufferings (that is, generally in Wales,

The silence was more profound than that of midnight; and to me the silence of a summer morning is more touching than all other silence.

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