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Oh, why is man not immortal? What are the convolutions and centers of the brain, what is the purpose of vision, speech, self-consciousness, the sense of flame, if all of this is destined to go underground and eventually cool down with the earth's crust, and then for millions and millions of years I understand and aimlessly orbit the sun with the globe? In order for him to cool down and wander around aimlessly, it would not have been necessary to summon man from nothingness with his lofty, almost divine spirit, and then turn him again, as if mockingly, into a lump of mud.

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Oh, why is man not immortal? What are the convolutions and centers of the brain, what is the purpose of vision, speech, self-consciousness, the sense of flame, if all of this is destined to go underground and eventually cool down with the earth's crust, and then for millions and millions of years I understand and aimlessly orbit the sun with the globe? In order for him to cool down and wander around aimlessly, it would not have been necessary to summon man from nothingness with his lofty, almost divine spirit, and then turn him again, as if mockingly, into a lump of mud.

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Hungarian

"Ó, miért nem halhatatlan az ember? Mire valók az agy tekervényei és központjai, mire való a látás, a beszéd, az öntudat, a lángész, ha mindez arra van ítélve, hogy a föld alá kerüljön, s végül a föld kérgével együtt kihűljön, és azután millió meg millió éven át értelem és cél nélkül keringjen a földgolyóval együtt a nap körül? Ahhoz, hogy kihűljön és céltalanul keringjen, egyáltalában nem kellett volna a nemlétből előhívni az embert magas, szinte isteni szellemével, és azután újra, mintegy megcsúfolásul, sárröggé változtatni őt."

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