Too Great for Salts and Water
No, Summerlee, I will have none of your materialism, for I, at least, am too great a thing to end in mere physical constituents, a packet of salts and three bucketfuls of water. Here — here…there is something which uses matter, but is not of it — something which might destroy death, but which death can never destroy.
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Context: Over dinner, Challenger rejects Summerlee's materialist view of death.
Not in a duel yet
Source: Chapter II: The Tide of Death