"I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it."
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"They say we die twice - once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name."
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"Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy."
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"Most people can't bear to sit in church for an hour on Sundays. How are they supposed to live somewhere very similar to it for eternity?"
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"Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one."
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"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily."
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"Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace. I believe I have made that effort and that is, therefore, why I will sleep for the eternity."
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"The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead."
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"Only the dead have seen the end of war."
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"When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived."
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"The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. It is the power of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms - this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong to the rank of devoutly religious men."
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"What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us."
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"Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold."
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"Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another."
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"Death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity."
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"Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life."
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"You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend."
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"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."
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"In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat."
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"Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself."
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