"Some of the very greatest gifts bring an inevitable downside which you cannot "cure" without curing the gift at the same time."

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Posterity has never made the grave's embrace less cruel. It simply assuages our fear of death, because there is no better cure for out inevitable morality then the illusion of a beautiful eternity. But there is one illusion I still hold dear: that is the thought of an enlightened nation. That is the only future I still dream of.

— Yasmina Khadra