"Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony"
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"Nothing ever truly dies. The universe wastes nothing, everything is simply transformed."
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"Our life is made by the death of others."
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"Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?"
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"Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death."
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"If God exists, I hope he has a good excuse."
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"I don't believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear."
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"The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins."
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"Death is the destination we all share, no one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life."
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"Die happily and look forward to taking up a new and better form. Like the sun, only when you set in the west can you rise in the east."
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"Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides."
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"We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still."
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"As a Buddhist, I view death as a normal process, a reality that I accept will occur as long as I remain in this earthly existence. Knowing that I cannot escape it, I see no point in worrying about it. I tend to think of death as being like changing your clothes when they are old and worn out, rather than as some final end. Yet death is unpredictable: We do not know when or how it will take place. So it is only sensible to take certain precautions before it actually happens."
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"Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death."
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"Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them?"
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"What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from."
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"Will there be any bartenders up there in Heaven, will the pubs never close?"
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"The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain of generations of murderers, whose love of murder was in their blood as it is perhaps also in ours."
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"You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks."
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"Play Mozart in memory of me - and I will hear you."
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