"So far as I can see the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained mankind for ages."
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"The living all find death unpleasant; men mourn over it. And yet, what is death, but the unbending of the bow and its return to its case?"
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"Some things are more precious because they don't last long."
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"To bring into the world an unwanted human being is as antisocial an act as murder."
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"Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life."
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"Death. The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity- and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive."
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"Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people."
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"I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit."
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"It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death."
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"Death is a continuation of my life without me."
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"Death and hell are never full, and neither are men's eyes."
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"By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died."
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"From joy people are born; for joy they live; in joy they melt at death. Death is an ecstasy, for it removes the burden of the body and frees the soul of all pain springing from body identification. It is the cessation of pain and sorrow."
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"The greatest dread of ordinary man is death, with its rude imposition interrupting fortuitous plans and fondest attachments with an unknown and unwelcome change. The yogi is a conqueror of the grief associated with death. By control of mind and life force and the development of wisdom, he makes friends with the change of consciousness called death-he becomes familiar with the state of inner calmness and aloofness from identification with the mortal body."
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"He has outsoared the shadow of our night; envy and calumny and hate and pain, and that unrest which men miscall delight, can touch him not and torture not again; from the contagion of the world's slow stain, he is secure."
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"I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact."
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"Dying is a wild night and a new road."
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"You do not understand even life. How can you understand death?"
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"The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arises from the feeling that there is in every individual something which is inexpressible, peculiar to him alone, and is, therefore, absolutely and irretrievably lost."
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"The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets."
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