"If it is true that I am to die utterly," we say to ourselves, "then once I am annihilated the world has ended so far as I am concerned-it is finished. Why, then, should it not end forthwith, so that no new consciousnesses, doomed to suffer the tormenting illusion of a transient and apparential existence, may come into being?
"Behin ni ahituz gero, osorik hiltzen baldin banaiz-diotsogu geure buruari-, mundua amaitu zait, amaiturik dago, eta zergatik ez da lehenbailehen amaituko, kontzientzia berriak existentzia iragankor eta itxurazkoaren engainu nahigabetsua pairatzera etor ez daitezen?