"As estimated, you died. Things marched, sufficient, to that end. Just so much Zyklon and leather, patented terror, so many routine cries."
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"Life for the living, and rest for the dead!"
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"We often see malefactors, when they are led to execution, put on resolution and a contempt of death which, in truth, is nothing else but fearing to look it in the face--so that this pretended bravery may very truly be said to do the same good office to their mind that the blindfold does to their eyes."
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"Very few people are acquainted with death. They undergo it, commonly, not so much out of resolution as custom and insensitivity; and most men die because they cannot help it."
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"The outrage was on the scale of God. My younger brother was immortal and they hadn't noticed. Immortality had been concealed in my brother's body while he was alive, and we hadn't noticed that it dwelt there. Now my brother's body was dead, and immortality with it. ... And the error, the outrage, filled the whole universe."
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"Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always seem untimely."
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"In the arts of life main invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine. ... There is nothing in Man's industrial machinery but his greed and sloth: his heart is in his weapons."
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"It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a person's death consecrates him or her anew to us. It is as if life were not sacred too, as if it were comparatively a small thing to fail in love and reverence to the brother or sister who has to climb the whole toilsome mountain with us. It seems as if all our tears and tenderness were due to the one who is spared that hard journey."
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"Dying is such a waste of good health."
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"He who has a mistaken idea of life, will always have a mistaken idea of death."
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"Well, so it isn't time yet to die, is it?"
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"The one certain thing was that death never came at an expected moment."
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"Mortality has its compensations; one is that all evils are transitory, another that better times may come."
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"I will move gently down the stream of life until I sleep with my fathers."
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"To mix science up with philosophy is only to produce a philosophy that has lost all its ideal value and a science that has lost all its practical value. It is for my private physician to tell me whether this or that food will kill me. It is for my private philosopher to tell me whether I ought to be killed."
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"He can only get away from death by continually stepping within an inch of it."
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"Every loss which we incur leaves behind it vexation in the memory, save the greatest loss of all, that is, death, which annihilates the memory, together with life."
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"Death, a cause of terror to the sinner, is a blessed moment for him who has walked in the right path."
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"I'll sleep well tonight"
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"You can't get out of life alive."
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