"I don't want to be immortal through my works. I want to be immortal by not dying."
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"Death is an acquired trait."
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"Death has a hundred hands and walks by a thousand ways."
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"Dying is strange and hard if it is not our death, but a death that takes us by storm, when we've ripened none within us."
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"In every cradle decked with rosy wreath Lurk germs of death."
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"Oh Lord! Open the doors of night for me So that I may leave this place and disappear."
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"If a man knows not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen?"
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"Our own death is a premium which we must pay for the far greater benefit we have derived from the fact that so many people have not only lived but also died before us."
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"The end of a life is always vivifying."
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"To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead."
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"Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die."
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"Every thing admonishes us how needlessly long life is."
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"Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are shame and fame.They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings; I am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings."
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"Nothing is dead: men feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals and mournful obituaries, and there they stand looking out ofthe window, sound and well, in some new and strange disguise."
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"In the death of my son, now more than two years ago, I seem to have lost a beautiful estate,--no more. I cannot get it nearer to me."
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"If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways, I keep and pass and turn again."
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"A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. No woman can hold him. The wind must blow him away."
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"Do not ... hope wholly to reason away your troubles; do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind."
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"His death eclipsed the gayety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure."
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"Many an ancient lord's last words have been, 'You can't kill me because I've got magic aaargh.'"
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