“I can’t bear the thought of oblivion, Asriel,” she continued. “Sooner anything than that. I used to think pain would be worse—to be tortured forever—I thought that must be worse . . . But as long as you were conscious, it would be better, wouldn’t it? Better than feeling nothing, just going into the dark, everything going out forever and ever?”
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“In the end, we’ll all face oblivion.”
“I am less of myself and more of the sun; The beat of life is wearing me To an incomplete oblivion,”
“You honestly expect me to breathe in a world without air?”