"It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight and afterward return again."
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"Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day."
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"What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears."
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"Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires."
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"Boy, when you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead?"
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"Man lives freely only by his readiness to die."
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"I realized that I had died and been reborn numberless times but just didn't remember because the transitions from life to death and back are so ghostly easy, a magical action for naught, like falling asleep and waking up again a million times, the utter casualness and deep ignorance of it."
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"Death confronts us not unlike the historical battle scene that hangs on the wall of the classroom. It is our task to obscure or quite obliterate the picture by our deeds while we are still in this world."
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"Death is the perfect knowing."
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"My manuscripts sleep, while I cannot, for I am covered with poultices."
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"Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul."
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"The grave itself is but a covered bridge, Leading from light to light, through a brief darkness!"
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"I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher."
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"When someone you love dies, you don't lose them all at once. You lose them in pieces over time, like how the mail stops coming."
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"Because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of."
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"Only this shimmeriness is the real living. The shape is a dead crust. The shimmer is inside really."
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"It is hard to have patience with people who say 'There is no death' or 'Death doesn't matter.' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter."
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"There is in India a story of a dying youth who, hearing the sobs of grief around him, cried: Insult me not with your cries of sympathy. When I soar to the land of eternal light and love; it is I who should feel for you. For me, disease, shattering of bones, sorrow, excruciating heartaches no more. I dream joy, I glide in joy, I breathe in joy evermore."
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"Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan."
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