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"Then fell upon the house a sudden gloom, a shadow on those features fair and thin. And softly, from the hushed and darkened room, two angels issued, where but one went in."
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"You would know the secret of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heath of life? The owl whose night-bound eyes are blind unto the day cannot unveil the mystery of light. If you would indeed behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. For life and death are one, even as the river and sea are one. For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?"
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"You would know the secret of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life."
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"If you would behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. For life and death are one, even as the river and sea are one."
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"You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect."
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"I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassinated. He lived for several days after he was shot, and towards the end, his wife started crying and screaming, "I want to go too! I want to go too!" And with his last measure of strength, McKinley turned to her and spoke his last words: "We are all going."
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"He went up to heaven, located his dog. Not only that, but he rejoined his arm."
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"Death ... doesn't take her eyes off us for a minute, so much so that even those who are not yet due to die feel her gaze pursuing them constantly."
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"He thought of the mouldering child, which laid its withered thin arms around his soul, as if it were his own, and to whom Death had given as much as a god gave to Endymion, — sleep, eternal youth, and immortality."
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"A man's life breath cannot come back again-- no raiders in force, no trading brings it back, once it slips through a man's clenched teeth."
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"Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other."
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"Until death it is all life."
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"'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it."
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"Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him."
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"A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man."
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"Oh build your ship of death. Oh build it! For you will need it. For the voyage of oblivion awaits you."
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"From a Buddhist point of view, the actual experience of death is very important. Although how or where we will be reborn is generally dependent on karmic forces, our state of mind at the time of death can influence the quality of our next rebirth. So at the moment of death, in spite of the great variety of karmas we have accumulated, if we make a special effort to generate a virtuous state of mind, we may strengthen and activate a virtuous karma, and so bring about a happy rebirth."
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"If you are mindful of death, it will not come as a surprise-you will not be anxious. You will feel that death is merely like changing clothes. Consequently, at that point you will be able to maintain your calmness of mind."
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"We cannot hope to die peacefully if our lives have been full of violence, or if our minds have mostly been agitated by emotions like anger, attachment, or fear. So if we wish to die well, we must learn how to live well: Hoping for a peaceful death, we must cultivate peace in our mind, and in our way of life."
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