Quote#Death
Whether across death's threshold we step from life to life, or…
Quote byWilliam Osler · 1849–1919
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Science and Immortality (1904).
English (original)
Whether across death's threshold we step from life to life, or whether we go whence we shall not return, even to the land of darkness, as darkness itself, he cannot tell.
— William Osler
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