If death, said my father, reasoning with himself, is nothing but the separation of the soul from the body;--and if it is true that people can walk about and do their business without brains, --then certes the soul does not inhabit there.

Laurence Sterne
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If death, said my father, reasoning with himself, is nothing but the separation of the soul from the body;--and if it is true that people can walk about and do their business without brains,--then certes the soul does not inhabit there.

Source: The Life And Opinions Of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

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