"Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly."
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"Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins."
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"If we confine ourselves to a general and distant reflection on the ills of human life, that can have no effect to prepare us for them. If by close and intense meditation we render them present and intimate to us, that is the true secret for poisoning all our pleasures, and rendering us perpetually miserable."
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"Do not go gentle into the good night. Old age should burn and rage at close of day."
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"I personally want to "do" death in the active and not the passive, and to be there to look it in the eye and be doing something when it comes for me."
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"When death comes, it's just like winter. We don't say, "There ought not to be winter." That the winter season, when the leaves fall and the snow comes, is some kind of defeat, something which we should hold out against. No. Winter is part of the natural course of events. No winter, no summer. No cold, no heat."
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"[In] death at least there would be one profit; it would no longer be necessary to eat, to drink, to pay taxes, or to [offend] others; and as a man lies in his grave not one year, but hundreds and thousands of years, the profit was enormous. The life of man was, in short, a loss, and only his death a profit."
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"How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being."
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"Eternity is now. Right now, right here, you're an infinite being. Once you get past the fear of death as an end, you merge with the infinite and feel the comfort and relief that this realization brings."
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"What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom it seems to be, even of torments, despair, eternal death."
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"Marriage is the death of hope."
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"It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune."
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"Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities."
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"I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature."
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"Leisure without literature is death and burial alive."
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"Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state."
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"When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers."
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"Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal."
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"Death will be a great relief. No more interviews."
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"Everything is ephemeral, both that which remembers and that which is remembered."
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