"Man's last day must ever be awaited and none to be counted happy until his death, until his last funeral rites are paid."
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"It's not what I'd want for at my funeral. When I die, I just want them to plant me somewhere warm. And then when the pretty women walk over my grave I would grab their ankles, like in that movie."
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"You don’t want to ask after the health of anyone, if you’re a funeral director. They think maybe you’re scouting for business."
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"We should not expect the state to appear in the guise of an extravagant good fairy at every christening, a loquacious companion at every stage of life's journey, and the unknown mourner at every funeral."
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"Religious unity can look like a carnival and religious liberty can look like a funeral."
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"Every virtue has its privilege: for example, that of contributing its own little bundle of wood to the funeral pyre of one condemned."
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"I have passed the mountain peak and my soul is soaring in the firmament of Complete and unbounded freedom; I am in comfort, I am in peace."
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"A solemn funeral is inconceivable to the Chinese mind."
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"A funeral isn't for the dead. You'll simply be a stage set for a kind of festival maybe. And besides, you won't even be there."
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"Funerals...are for the living."
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"I went on spouting bullshit Encouragements as Gus's parents, arm in arm, hugged each other and nodded at every word. Funerals, I had decided, are for the living."
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"A funeral is for those left behind. Sometimes, one wonders if the weeping is more out of fear for ourselves than it is sympathy for the deceased."
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