"When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language."
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"Wake up! Time to die!"
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"If you live each day as it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right"
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"Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated."
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"In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation."
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"So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence."
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"Death is close enough at hand so we do not need to be afraid of life."
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"ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee"
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"What happens after death is so unspeakably glorious that our imagination and our feelings do not suffice to form even an approximate conception of it. The dissolution of our time-bound form in eternity brings no loss of meaning."
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"Call no man happy till he is dead."
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"It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills."
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"Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow."
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"Our dead brothers and sisters still live for us and bid us think of life, not death-of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will."
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"I intend to live forever, or die trying."
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"I never had a dog that showed a human fear of death. Death, to a dog, is the final unavoidable compulsion, the least ineluctable scent on a fearsome trail, but they like to face it alone, going out into the woods, among the leaves, if there are any leaves when their time comes, enduring without sentimental human distraction the Last Loneliness, which they are wise enough to know cannot be shared by anyone."
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"One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive."
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"For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off."
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"All thinking men are atheists."
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"He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead."
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"A journey never ends. Only the travellers end."
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