• The age-old faith of lovers and poets in the power of love, stronger than death, that Finis vitae sed non amoris, is a lie, useless and not even funny.

    Stanislaw Lem: The age-old faith of lovers and poets in the power of love, stronger than death, that Finis vitae sed non amoris, is a lie, useless and not even funny.
    "Solaris". Book by Stanisław Lem. Chapter 14: "The Old Mimoid", p. 204, 1961.