"So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after."
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"The only place where you could see life and death, i. e., violent death now that the wars were over, was in the bull ring and I wanted very much to go to Spain where I could study it. I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death."
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"It is better that we live ever so Miserably than die in glory."
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"The difference between trying to be fit and not being fit really means the difference between life and death."
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"Death and life are the same thing-like the two sides of my hand, the palm and the back. And still the palm and the back are not the same...They can be neither separated, nor mixed."
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"The daily life of a genius, his sleep, his digestion, he ecstasies, his nails, his colds, his blood, his life and death are essentially different from the rest of mankind."
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"And what do you really do? asked Tiffany. The thin witch hesitatied for a moment, and then: We look to ... the edges, said Mistress Weatherwax. There's a lot of edges, more than people know. Between life and death, this world and the next, night and day, right and wrong ... an' they need watchin'. We watch 'em, we guard the sum of things. And we never ask for any reward. That's important."
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"You will die not because you're ill, but because you're alive."
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"Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death; a thousand doors open on to it."
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"For each of us, time is a thief of flory. What give meaning to our lives and deaths is love and hope, if we are willing to share and accept"
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"Political elections are not life and death."
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"The whole motley confusion of acts, omissions, regrets and hopes which is the life of each one of us finds in death, not meaning or explanation, but an end."
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"Death and life, success and failure, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty, all these happen to good and bad alike, and they are neither noble nor shameful - and hence neither good nor bad."
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"One can no more look steadily at death than at the sun."
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"So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing."
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"One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death."
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"He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them; a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel, as sharp as the difference between right and wrong, between true and false, between life and death."
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"Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death."
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"Thomas Jefferson survives."
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"I am not ready to die, / But I am learning to trust death / As I have trusted life."
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