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Lawrence, D.H. "The Ship of Death." Last Poems, edited by Richard Aldington and Giuseppe Orioli. The Viking Press, 1932, stanza 6.

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Petrarch. Letter to Philippe, Biship of Cavaillon. c. 1360.

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Petrarch. "To Philippe, Bishop of Cavaillon, concerning the incredible flight of time." Letters of Familiar Matters (Rerum Familiarum Libri), translated by Aldo Bernardo. Vol. 3, Italica Press, 2008.

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Edwards, Jonathan. "Procrastination or The Sin and Folly of Depending on Future Time." c. 1834. Sermon.

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Pope, Alexander and John Arbuthnot. Letter to Jonathan Swift. 5 Dec. 1732.

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"Lay of the Harper" Tomb of King Intef. El-Tarif, Luxor, Egypt. c. 2613.

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The Thin Red Line. Directed by Terrence Malick, Fox 2000 Pictures/Phoenix Pictures/Geisler-Roberdeau, 1998.

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London, Jack. "To Build a Fire." The Youth's Companion, 29 May 1902.

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London, Jack. "To Build a Fire." The Call of the Wild and Selected Stories. Signet, 2009.

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Donne, John. "Meditation XVII." Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, and severall steps in my Sicknes. London, 1624.

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Donne, John. "Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions." Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions and Death's Duel. Vintage, 1999, meditation 17.

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The Book of Common Prayer (American). Episcopal Church, 1928.

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Millay, Edna St. Vincent. "Dirge Without Music." The Buck in the Snow, and Other Poems. Harper & Brothers, 1928, st. 1.

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Haggard, H. Rider. King Solomon's Mines. London: Cassell and Company, 1886.

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Haggard, H. Rider. King Solomon's Mines. Penguin Classics, 2008.

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The Holy Bible, New International Version. International Bible Society, 1978. (Romans 7:24).

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Shakespeare, William. "Hamlet." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 3, sc. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. "Hamlet." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 3, sc. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. "Measure for Measure." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 3, sc. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. "Measure for Measure." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 3, sc. 1.

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Flaubert, Gustave. Madame Bovary: Moeurs de Province [Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners]. Revue de Paris, 1 Oct. 1856 - 15 Dec. 1856. Serial.

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Flaubert, Gustave. Madame Bovary, edited and translated by Lydia Davis. Penguin Classics, 2011, pt. 3, ch. 9.

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Plato. Ἀπολογία Σωκράτους [Apology of Socrates]. Speech of legal self-defence which Socrates spoke at his trial for impiety and corruption. 399 BC, Athens, Greece.

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Plato. "Apology." Plato: Euthyphro; Apology; Crito; Phaedo, translated by Christopher Emlyn-Jones and William Preddy. Harvard University Press, 2017.

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The Quran. c. 630, 4:78.

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The Quran, translated by M. A. S. Abdel Haleem. Oxford University Press, 2005, ch. 4.

I know death hath ten thousand several doors
For men to take their exits.

John Webster

The Duchess of Malfi

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Webster, John. The Duchess of Malfi. King's Men, c. 1614, Blackfriars Theatre, London, England, UK, act 4, sc. 2.

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Webster, John. "The Duchess of Malfi." The Duchess of Malfi, The White Devil, The Broken Heart and 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, edited by Jane Kingsley-Smith. Penguin Classics, 2015, act 4, sc. 2.

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Vyasa. The Bhagavad Gita. c. 200 BCE, ch. 2, v. 28.

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Vyasa. The Bhagavad Gita, translated W. J. Johnson. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 2, v. 28.

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Spartacus. Directed by Stanley Kubrick, Bryna Productions, 1960.