#departed

The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

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I have departed from this planet and I have left behind my poor earthly ones with their occupations which are as many as they are useless; at last I am living in the scintillating splendor of the stars, each of which used to seem to me as large as millions of suns. ↗

— Jules Massenet

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Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living. ↗

— Thomas Browne

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Of joys departed, not to return, how painful the remembrance. ↗

— Robert Blair

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