Aye, Miss Schlegel.

“I always understood that those supermen were rather what you call egoists”
“Oh no, that’s wrong,” replied Helen. “No superman ever said ‘I want’, because ‘I want’ must lead to the question ‘Who am I?’ and so to Pity and Justice. He only says ‘want’. ‘Want Europe’ if he’s Napoleon; ‘want wives’ if he’s Bluebeard; ‘want Botticelli’ if he’s Pierpont Morgan. Never the ‘I’; and if you could pierce through him you’d find panic and emptiness in the middle.”

“Miss Schlegel, the real thing’s money, and all the rest is a dream.”
“You’re still wrong. You’ve forgotten Death.”
Leonard could not understand
“If we lived for ever, what you say would be true. But we have to die, we have to leave life presently. Injustice and greed would be the real things if we lived for ever. As it is, we must hold to other things, because Death is coming. I love Death – not morbidly, but because He explains. He shows me the emptiness of Money. Death and Money are the eternal foes. Not Death and Life. Never mind what lies behind Death, Mr Bast, but be sure that the poet and the musician and the tramp will be happier in it than the man who has never learned to say: ‘I am I’”

- E. M Forster, Howard’s End.