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| 1 | Author: | Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950 | Requires cookie* | | Title: | A Princess of Mars | | | Published: | 1993 | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | Description: | I am a very old man; how old I do not know. Possibly I am
a hundred, possibly more; but I cannot tell because I have
never aged as other men, nor do I remember any childhood.
So far as I can recollect I have always been a man, a man
of about thirty. I appear today as I did forty years and
more ago, and yet I feel that I cannot go on living forever;
that some day I shall die the real death from which there is
no resurrection. I do not know why I should fear death,
I who have died twice and am still alive; but yet I have the
same horror of it as you who have never died, and it is
because of this terror of death, I believe, that I am so
convinced of my mortality. | | Similar Items: | Find |
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