The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

Edgar Allan Poe

The Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper

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Life and death

Author

Edgar Allan Poe

Source

The Premature Burial The Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper

Medium

Poem Newspaper

Language

English

Time

1844 1840s 19th century

Occupation

Poet Writer

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United States

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Poe, Edgar Allan. "The Premature Burial." The Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper, July 1844.

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Poe, Edgar Allan. "The Premature Burial." Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and Tales, edited by Patrick F. Quinn. Library of America, 1984.

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Thus not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but it hides his descendants and separates his contemporaries from him; it throws him back forever upon himself alone and threatens in the end to confine him entirely within the solitude of his own heart.

Alexis de Tocqueville

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Democracy in America
Genre
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Language
French
Time
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Original Citation

Tocqueville, Alexis De. De La Democratie en Amerique [Democracy in America]. Vol. 2, London: Saunders and Otley, 1840, sect. 2, ch. 2.

Current Citation

Tocqueville, Alexis De. Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II, translated by Henry Reeve. Bantam Classics, 2000, vol. 2, sect. 2, ch. 2.

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Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

The Portable Atheist

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Living life to the fullest Life and death Life Death

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Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Source
How (and Why) I Became an Infidel The Portable Atheist
Medium
Essay
Genre
Religious literature
Language
English
Time
2007 2000s 21st century
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Citation

Hirsi Ali, Ayaan. "How (and Why) I Became an Infidel." The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever, edited by Christopher Hitchens. Da Capo Press, 2007, ch. 47.