"Death belongs to God alone; by what right do men touch that unknown thing?"
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"It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live."
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"Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal."
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"Never but the one matter. The dead and gone. The dying and going. From the word go."
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"There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death."
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"Death is one moment, and life is so many of them."
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"Death doesn't exist. It never did, it never will. But we've drawn so many pictures of it, so many years, trying to pin it down, comprehend it, we've got to thinking of it as an entity, strangely alive and greedy. All it is, however, is a stopped watch, a loss, an end, a darkness. Nothing."
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"Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour."
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"The only love that won’t disappoint you is one that can’t change, that can’t be lost, that is not based on the ups and downs of life or of how well you live. It is something that not even death can take away from you. God’s love is the only thing like that."
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"Death is when the monsters get you."
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"Who knows when the end is reached? Death may be the beginning of life. How do I know that love of life is not a delusion after all? How do I know that he who dreads to die is as a child who has lost the way and cannot find his way home? How do I know that the dead repent of having previously clung to life?"
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"Alas, I am dying beyond my means."
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"The whole life of a philosopher is the meditation of his death."
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"Death is what makes life an event."
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"Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it."
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"Good news for senior citizens: Death is near!"
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"Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet."
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"What greater gift is there than to demonstrate you need not fear death?"
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"Once one has kissed a cadaver's forehead, there always remains something of it on the lips, an infinite bitterness, an aftertasteof nothingness that nothing can erase."
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"There is no death! What seems so is transition; this life of mortal breath is but a suburb of the life elysian, whose portal we call Death."
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