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When the wish for non-existence becomes as continuous as the thirst for repeated earthly existence formerly was, when with George Darley, the early nineteenth-century English poet, he can say "There to lay me down at peace/ In my own first nothingness," he has become an old soul.

-- Notebooks Category 8: The Ego > Chapter 5 : Detaching from The Ego (Part 2) > # 358