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Opening his eyes, gazing at the vastness above, below, and all around, J.D. inquired, “Do you believe in immortality?” as casually as if inquiring if she believed in free trade. “I don’t know. Do you?” “I don’t know either. I want terribly to believe that there’s a chance for such happiness as this to be carried on somehow, somewhere, if not in this life, then in the next.”
– Now, Voyager by Olive Higgins Prouty adapted into the 1942 film of the same name, dir. Irving Rapper