QuoteQuest“The life that you seek you never will find: <br /> when the gods created mankind, <br /> death they dispensed to mankind, <br /> life they kept for themselves.”
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Source
- Title
- Wikiquote: Gilgamesh
- Type
- reference · Secondary source
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Gilgamesh. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Gilgamesh. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gilgamesh
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