In reading some books we occupy ourselves chiefly with the thoughts of the author; in perusing others, exclusively with our own.
Edgar Allan PoeThe boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
Edgar Allan PoeEven with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.
Edgar Allan Poe