Miguel de Unamuno, The Tragic Sense of Life, trans. J.E. Crawford Flitch (1912). Emphasis added.
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Only the feeble resign themselves to final death and substitute some other desire for the longing for personal immortality. In the strong the zeal for perpetuity overrides the doubt of realizing it, and their superabundance of life overflows upon the other side of death.
Leo Tolstoy, Смерть Ивана Ильича, translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude (1886).
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Considered to be one of the finest examples of a novella, The Death of Ivan Ilyich tells the story of a high-court judge in 19th-century Russia and his sufferings and death from a terminal illness.