"Dead man, dead man When will you arise? Cobwebs in your mind Dust upon your eyes"
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"You hurt the ones that I love best and cover up the truth with lies. One day you'll be in the ditch, flies buzzin' around your eyes."
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"I feel like I'm knockin' on heaven's door."
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"And when the war broke out, its real horrors, its real dangers, its menace of real death were a blessing compared with the inhuman reign of the lie, and they brought relief because they broke the spell of the dead letter."
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"What we commonly call death does not destroy the body, it only causes a separation of spirit and body."
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"Your skin upon my skin, in the beating of our hearts, may the living let us in, before the dead tear us apart."
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"When I die throw my body in the back and drive me to the junk yard in my Cadillac."
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"As soon as one does not kill oneself, one must keep silent about life."
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"Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter."
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"Have you noticed that only death arouses our emotions? How we love thee friends who have just passed away, right? How we admire those master who no longer speak, their mouths full of dirt. We them we are not obligated."
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"Late on the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset, ..., there flashed upon my mind, unforeseen and unsought, the phrase “Ehrfurcht vor dem Leben” (“reverence for life”)."
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"Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre."
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"Death, which we are accustomed to consider an evil, really acts for us the friendliest part, and takes away the commonplace of existence."
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"If we were to live here always, with no other care than how to feed, clothe, and house ourselves, life would be a very sorry business. It is immeasurably heightened by the solemnity of death."
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"As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step."
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"I've reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, I can't do anything to change events anyway."
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"I do not want to believe that death is the gateway to another life. For me, it is a closed door. I do not say it is a step we must all take, but that it is a horrible and dirty adventure."
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"Once one's up against it, the precise manner of one's death has obviously small importance."
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"There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible."
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"The fact that we die, that makes life important. It's hard to take, but it's the truth."
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