From the beginning you have been immortal, and you are children of eternal life.
And you wanted death to be allocated to yourselves
so that you might spend it and use it up,
and that death might die in you and through you.
For when you nullify the world and are not yourselves annihilated,
you are lord over creation and all corruption.
- Valentinus, Fragment F from Clement of Alexandria, Stromateis
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