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"All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God."
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"Do I fear death? No, I am not afraid of being dead because there's nothing to be afraid of, I won't know it. I fear dying, of dying I feel a sense of waste about it and I fear a sordid death, where I am incapacitated or imbecilic at the end which isn't something to be afraid of, it's something to be terrified of."
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"The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying."
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"Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details."
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"If you want me again look for me under your boot soles."
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"The tongues of dying men enforce attention like deep harmony."
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"The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what we fear of death."
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"Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime"
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"Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances."
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"To die for the sake of dying - I prefer to die of passion than to die of boredom!"
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"Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation."
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"The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche."
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"Toward the person who has died we adopt a special attitude: something like admiration for someone who has accomplished a very difficult task."
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"The moment you stop learning you're dying."
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"Life is uncertain; death is certain."
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"There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight."
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"Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying."
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"Death was not to be a leap: it was to be a long descent under thickening shadows."
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"You must be as thrilled as I am to meet again.Call it an act of extreme kindness that I requested your leg be bandaged up," she snaps. "I want to see you stand for your execution,and I won't have you dying from infection before I'm through with you." "Thanks.You're very kind."
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