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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
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"I will take no more physick, not even my opiates; for I have prayed that I may render up my soul to God unclouded."

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Virginia Woolf Novelist
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"They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw comfort from the thought."

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Russell Brand Comedian, Actor
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"I think what's actually happened is print media is becoming obsolete, and this is like the floundering corpse of a dying media. It is just twitching."

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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
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"I died from a mineral and plant became, Died from the plant, took a sentient frame; Died from the beast, donned a human dress - When by my dying did I ever grow less."

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez Novelist, Short Story Writer, Journalist
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"He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stonecutter more obstinate, no manager more lucid or dangerous, than a poet."

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"I was thinking about dying the other day the death thought came while I was sitting on the toilet peeing - that's where I have my most contemplative thoughts."

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George Orwell Writer, Journalist
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"From the proletarians nothing is to be feared. Left to themselves, they will continue from generation to generation and from century to century, working, breeding, and dying, not only without any impulse to rebel, but without the power of grasping that the world could be other than it is."

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