I am not learned I am not ignorant I have known joys That is saying too little I am alive and this life gives me the greatest pleasure And what about death When I die perhaps any minute now I will feel immense pleasure I am not talking about the foretaste of death which is stale and often disagreeable Suffering dulls the senses But this is the remarkable truth and I am sure of it I experience boundless pleasure in living and I will take boundless satisfaction in dying Maurice Blanchot The Madness of the Day