«Maturity is when the thoughts of mortality stop to evoke fear and start to indu...

		nine_k on Aug 8, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: In ‘The Book Against Death,’ Elias Canetti rants a... «Maturity is when the thoughts of mortality stop to evoke fear and start to induce moderate optimism.» «I'm not afraid of dying, I'm afraid of dying pointlessly.» (Don't remember the attribution.)