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The words by William Butler Yeats, “We lose everything because everything remains except us. And therefore any form of posterity may be an affront, and perhaps any memory, as well,” are a reminder to live now. They are a reminder that there is no afterlife. There is no heaven or hell, no reward or punishment.
Although we may have our thoughts about what our life would have been like had we lived differently, the truth is that the only memories we have are those of our own thoughts. As Yeats also said in his poem "The Lake Isle of Innisfree," "the one thing necessary" was that "we must love one another or die."
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