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Directory of Mark Twain's maxims, quotations, and various opinions:

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It brought me within a shade of death's door. It brought me to where I no longer took any interest in anything, but, on the contrary, felt a total absence of interest -- which was most placid and tranquil and sweet and delightful and enchanting. I have never enjoyed anything in my life any more than I enjoyed dying that time. I was, in effect, dying. The word had been passed and the family notified to assemble around the bed and see me off. I knew them all. There was no doubtfulness in my vision. They were all crying, but that did not affect me. I took but the vaguest interest in it and that merely because I was the centre of all this emotional attention and was gratified by it and vain of it.
- Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 1 (2010)

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