Cébès: Then I shall die and shall no longer exist?
Tête-d'or: I will tell you what I know when I do not know it.
And my answer is silence, and the breath that blows from the open and black abyss.
You did not breathe in the days when you lay in the womb of your mother,
But her blood entered into your body and flowed in you and your heart was moored to her heart through the middle of your belly,
And having come out of her you breathed and uttered a cry!
I also have uttered a cry,
A cry like a babe new-born, and I have drawn the keen and burning sword, and have beheld
Humanity divide before me like the separation of the waters!
And now I return to you and find you in the lassitude of death!