"Guess now who holds thee?'--'Death,' I said. But, there, The silver answer rang, . . . 'Not Death, but Love."
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"Never say about anything, "I have lost it," but only "I have given it back." Is your child dead? It has been given back. Is your wife dead? She has been returned."
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"It is a tragedy that most of us die before we have begun to live."
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"Death is by no means separate from life. . . . We all interact with death every day, tasting it as we might a wine, feeling its keen edge even in trifling losses and disappointments, holding it by the hand, as a dancer might a partner, in every separation."
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"I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand."
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"A man is not completely born until he is dead. Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals, a new member added to their happy society?"
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"I'll stand over your grave 'til I'm sure that you're dead."
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"There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed."
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"I want to be cremated so people won't come to worship at my bones."
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"Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely."
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"Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?"
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"Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some."
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"Death's in the good-bye."
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"To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier."
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"Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity."
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"And nothing can we call our own but death And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones. For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings."
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"Death lies on her like an untimely frost."
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"Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep, perchance to dream—For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause, there's the respect, That makes calamity of so long life"
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"Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to Heaven."
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"The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living."
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