"For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one."
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"Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness."
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"I shall hear in heaven."
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"O Captain! My Captain! our fearful trip is done."
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"Nothing can happen more beautiful than death."
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"There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?"
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"Death is an ill; 'tis thus the Gods decide: / For had death been a boon, the Gods had died."
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"The soul is pure when it leaves the body and drags nothing bodily with it, by virtue of having no willing association with the body in life but avoiding it.......Practicing philosophy in the right way is a training to die easily."
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"What happens if you get scared half to death twice?"
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"Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid."
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"He is the happiest man who can see the connection between the end and the beginning of life."
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"Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety."
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"Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them."
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"My dear, Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness. Let it kill you and let it devour your remains. For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover. ~ Falsely yours"
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"I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different."
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"To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?"
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"To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure."
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"If no one knows when a person is going to die, how can we say he died prematurely?"
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"There is no grief like the grief that does not speak."
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"Lack of love for the vegetative, subtle, cthonic, pagan, and sexy aspect of the world means death."
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