"If a man knows not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen?"
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"Our own death is a premium which we must pay for the far greater benefit we have derived from the fact that so many people have not only lived but also died before us."
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"Dying for dark — and the darker the Worse. Strange."
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"To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead."
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"I am ready to die out of nature, and be born again into this new yet unapproachable America I have found in the West."
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"A man in a cave or in a camp, a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves."
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"In shamanism and certain yogas, Taoist yoga, claim very clearly that the purpose is to familiarize yourself with this after-death body, in life, and then the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche. You will recognize what is happening. You will know what to do. And you will make the clean break."
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"If you're truly psychedelic the difference between living and dying is quite immaterial. No pun intended."
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"They suffered from the terrible delusion that something could be done. They seemed prepared to make the world the way they wanted it or die in the attempt, and the trouble with dying in the attempt was that you died in the attempt."
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"Sister Mary was a nurse and nurses, whatever their creed, are primarily nurses, which had a lot to do with wearing your watch upside down, keeping calm in emergencies, and dying for a cup of tea."
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"People's whole lives do pass in front of their eye before they die. The process is called "Living"."
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"From this outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living. Did all dying people feel this way, as if they had never lived? Did life seem that short, indeed, over and done before you took a breath? Did it seem this abrupt and impossible to everyone, or only to himself, here, now, with a few hours left to him for thought and deliberation?"
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"Being born he have himself as our Companion, Eating with us he gave himself as Food, Dying He became our Ransom, Reigning he gives himself as our Reward"
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"Planting is one of my great amusements, and even of those things which can only be for posterity, for a Septuagenary has no right to count on any thing but annuals."
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"It look like the lord just work for wite folks cause ever sens i wasn nothin but a litle boy i been on my on haulin water to the fiel on that ol water cart wit all them dime bukets an that dipper just hittin an old dorthy just trottin and trottin an me up their hittin her wit that rope."
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"It simply comes down to this, Get Busy Living, or Get Busy Dying."
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"The moment of Jesus' greatest glory was on the cross, dying as our substitute."
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"One must take all one's life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one's life to learn how to die."
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"No, I'm not dying, and I sure... ain't dead."
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"Dying's not so bad. At least I won't have to answer the telephone."
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