"Baby, this town rips the bones from our back it's a death trap, it's a suicide rap. We got to get out while we're young."
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"Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well."
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"It is depressing to hear the unfortunate or dying man jest."
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"We must endure our thoughts all night, until the bright obvious stands motionless in the cold."
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"That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again and ever again, this soiled world."
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"Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving, In the day, in the night, to all, to each, Sooner or later, delicate death."
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"I'm a prodigal son. The black sheep of a white flock. I shall die on the gallows."
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"What shall I do for pretty girls Now my old bawd is dead?"
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"Where hateful Death put on his ugliest mask."
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"We enjoy some gratification when our good friends die; for though their death leaves us in sorrow, we have the consolatory assurance that they are beyond the ills by which in this life even the best of people are broken down or corrupted."
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"If it is necessary to die in order to live like men, what harm in dying?"
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"When I think of ages past That have floated down the stream Of life and love and death, I feel how free it makes us To pass away."
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"When any living thing has come to the end of its cycle, we accept that end as natural. When that intangible cycle has run its course it is a natural and not unhappy thing that a life comes to its end."
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"The hour I have long wished for is now come."
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"These passions of soul, these conflicts so fierce, will cease, and be repressed by the casting of a little dust."
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"Rehearse death. To say this is to tell a person to rehearse his freedom. A person who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. He is above, or at any rate, beyond the reach of, all political powers."
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"The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way."
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"He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life is the way to this destination."
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"Death takes us piecemeal, not at a gulp."
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"You never know what life means till you die; even throughout life, tis death that makes life live."
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