One last word before death.
The last chance to leave something before his last breath.
Emphatic, prophetic, or flat like a street sidewalk… The last thoughts of writers and literary figures have marked posterity.
Goethe would have said in the evening of his life:
"No more light!"
.
Jay Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's hero in
The Great Gatsby
, calmly declaims:
"Well, bye."
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How to match this sentence that Edmond Rostand makes Cyrano say, in the light of his death:
"my panache"
?
It is difficult to be more concise than the writer and critic Paul Léautaud when he declares on his deathbed:
"And now, leave me alone!"
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As we celebrate the dead today, the editorial team invites you to test your knowledge of the latest words from our greatest writers and literary heroes.
Will you be faultless?
