Quotation by William Faulkner

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This day I have sent couriers to every part of our country, to every city and village. They carry this decree. That I have set a task for Egypt, which in any other land would be impossible on the desert sands. You will raise a pyramid, a structure greater than any in the world. This pyramid shall be resting place for the second life. Each man has a covenant with me to work as man has not yet worked in all time. And as the living God of Egypt, I promise you that each man by his labor shall secure for himself a place in the life to come.

William Faulkner

William Faulkner (1897–1962), U.S. author, screenwriter, Harry Kurnitz, screenwriter, Harold Jack Bloom, screenwriter, and Howard Hawks. Pharaoh Cheops (Jack Hawkins), Land of the Pharaohs, standing before his people, Pharaoh announces his plans to build a great pyramid (1955).

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