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John Green Author, YouTuber
Dying

"Peter Van Houten was the only person I’d ever come across who seemed to (a) understand what it’s like to be dying, and (b) not have died."

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Jose Saramago Writer
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"We say Fine, even though we may be dying, and this is commonly known as taking one's courage in both hands, a phenomenon that has only been observed in the human species."

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Hermann Hesse Novelist, Poet
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"At one time I had given much thought to why men were so very rarely capable of living for an ideal. Now I saw that many, no, all men were capable of dying for one."

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Mother Teresa Missionary, Nun
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"We are taught from the very first moment to discover Christ under the distressing disguixe of the poor, the sick, the outcasts. Christ presents Himself to us under every disguise: the dying, the paralytic, the leper, the invalid, the orphan."

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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
Dying

"Christ did not die for man because they were intrinsically worth dying for, but because he is intrinsically love, and therefore loves infinitely."

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Anton Chekhov Playwright, Short Story Writer
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"And what does it mean -- dying? Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and only the five we know are lost at death, while the other ninety-five remain alive."

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