“There's a little book I'm thinking of writing - "Swan Song" is what I shall call it. The song of the dying. And my book will be incense burnt at the deathbed of this society, damned with the damnation of its own impotence.” ThinkingWritingLittlesBookSongDyingDamnationSwansImpotenceThis SocietyDeathbedIncense Author:Maxim Gorky
“What I had not counted on was discovering how closely a man could come to dying and still not die, or want to die. That, too, was mine; and it also is to the good. For that experience resolved proportions and relationships for me as nothing else could have done; and it is surprising, approaching the final enlightenment, how little one really has to know or feel sure about.” KnowsMenWantFeelsLittlesStillsDoneDiesDyingMinesEnlightenmentFinalsProportionSurprisingDiscoveringWanting To Die Book:Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure Source: Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure