"Death is the side of life which is turned away from us."
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"To have died once is enough."
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"It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time."
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"Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment."
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"Do not pity the dead, Harry."
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"When you realize where you come from, you naturally become tolerant, amused, kindhearted as a grandmother, and dignified as a king. Immersed in wonder, you can deal with whatever life brings you, and when death comes, you are ready."
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"Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it."
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"One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life."
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"Sun, I come to see you for the last time."
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"The dew of compassion is a tear."
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"If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on."
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"Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present."
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"The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world."
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"But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man's blood, there is no way to raise him up."
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"They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person."
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"After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion."
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"There is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners, yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world."
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"I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived."
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"Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must."
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"The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it."
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