carry dead us die too, borne along a little while, bearers turn drop, — John Banville, Sea

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We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generations.

John Banville, The Sea

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