"Death is a supple suitor, that wins at last. It is a stealthy wooing; conducted first by pallid innuendos and dim approach, but brave at last with bugles."
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"No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there."
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"'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens."
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"It has served us well, this myth of Christ."
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"The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear."
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"The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude."
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"Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out."
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"Property is theft. Nobody "owns" anything. When you die, it all stays here."
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"Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret."
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"Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality."
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"You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe"
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"Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."
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"We brought nothing into this world and it's certain we can carry nothing out."
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"It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was."
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"It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be."
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"Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity."
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"If Atheism is a religion, then health is a disease!"
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"Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things."
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"I think more people would be alive today if there were a death penalty."
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"When the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance."
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