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Death

by Maurice Maeterlinck

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  1. 1Plays
  2. 2I — Our Idea of Death
  3. 3II — A Primitive Idea
  4. 4III — We Must Enlighten and Establish — Our Idea of Death
  5. 5IV — We Must Rid Death of That Which Goes Before
  6. 6V — The Pangs of Death Must Be — Attributed to Man Alone
  7. 7VI — The Mistake of the Doctors in Prolonging the Pangs of Death
  8. 8VII — Their Arguments
  9. 9VIII — That Which Does Not Belong to Death
  10. 10IX — The Horrors of the Grave Also — Do Not Belong to Death
  11. 11X — When Contemplating the Unknown Into Which Death Hurls Us, Let U…
  12. 12XI — Annihilation Impossible
  13. 13XII — The Survival of Our Consciousness
  14. 14XIII — It Seems Impossible
  15. 15XIV — The Same, Continued
  16. 16XV — If It Were Possible, It Would — Not Be Dreadful
  17. 17XVI — The Survival Without Consciousness
  18. 18XVII — The Same, Continued
  19. 19XVIII — The Limited Ego Would Become — A Torture
  20. 20XIX — A New Ego Can Find a Nucleus and Develop Itself in Infinity
  21. 21XX — The Only Sorrow That Can Touch Our Mind
  22. 22XXI — Infinity as Conceived by Our Reason
  23. 23XXII — Infinity as Perceived by Our Senses
  24. 24XXIII — Which of the Two Shall We Know?
  25. 25XXIV — The Infinity Which Both Our Reason and Our Senses Can Admit
  26. 26XXV — Our Fate in Infinity
  27. 27XXVI — The Same, Continued
  28. 28XXVII — Shall We Be Unhappy There?
  29. 29XXVIII — Questions Without Answers
  30. 30XXIX — The Same, Continued
  31. 31XXX — It Is Not Necessary to Answer Them
  32. 32XXXI — Everything Must Finish Exempt From Suffering

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