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You will never find that life for which you are looking. When the gods created man they allotted to him death, but life they retained in their own keeping.
– The Epic of Gilgamesh; an epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia dating from the 'Third Dynasty of Ur' (c. 2100 BCE). It is often regarded as the first great work of literature, and the first surviving version, the 'Old Babylonian', dates to the eighteenth century BCE.
