"The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death."

Death, Genius, Monuments, Poets

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"The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death."

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"The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking."

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"A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor."

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"The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death."