"Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent."
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"I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings."
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"We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways."
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"When the leaves fall, the whole earth is a cemetery pleasant to walk in. I love to wander and muse over them in their graves. Here are no lying nor vain epitaphs."
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"God is dead, God remains dead, and we have killed him."
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"For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance."
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"Every day in the mirror I watch death at work."
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"If I die, I will wait for you, do you understand? No matter how long. I will watch from beyond to make sure you live every year you have to its fullest, and then we’ll have so much to talk about when I see you again… (Bones)"
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"When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do."
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"The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations the most faithful of his courtiers to shipwreck, disaster, and death."
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"Death is Life's high meed."
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"A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself."
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"A beautiful death is for people who have lived like animals to die like angels."
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"I think immortality is the passing of a soul through many lives or experiences, and such as are truly lived, used and learned, help on to the next, each growing richer, happier and higher, carrying with it only the real memories of what has gone before."
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"It is foolish to be afraid of death. Just think. No more repaired tires on the body vehicle, no more patchwork living."
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"How wonderful is death! Death and his brother sleep."
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"Either death is a state of nothingness and utter consciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another. Now if death be of such a nature, I say that to die is to gain; for eternity is then only a single night."
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"From a proud tower in the town, Death looks gigantically down."
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"I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again."
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"Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies."
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