Vigil
And that is correct, but Napoleon's reaction to Ney's death are from 1816, here what he says the 9th april 1821 : " You are not mistaken," he told them, "I am feeling better today; but I can still sense that my end is near. When I am gone, each of you will have the sweet consolation of returning to Europe. Some of you will see your families again, ... See more
What did French marshals say when napoleon died?
Somehow the concept didn’t occur to me, even when I saw people my own age die. I had a white coat on; they had a hospital gown.
Atul Gawande • Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
On life and death this old man walked.
Herman Melville • Moby Dick: or, the White Whale
ROBERT KENNEDY, whose summer home is eight miles from the home I live in all year round, was shot two nights ago. He died last night. So it goes. Martin Luther King was shot a month ago. He died, too. So it goes. And every day my Government gives me a count of corpses created by military science in Vietnam. So it goes. My father died many years ago
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