Ludwig van Beethoven
Composer, Pianist
"Handel is the greatest composer that ever lived... I would uncover my head and kneel down on his tomb."
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Tombs
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Charles Dickens
Novelist
"Drive him fast to his tomb. This, from Jacques."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"The earth, that is nature's mother, is her tomb."
George Orwell
Writer, Journalist
"The hospital is the antechamber to the tomb"
Gustave Flaubert
Novelist
"He dreamed of funeral love, but dreams crumble and the tomb abides"
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"Architecture is either the prophecy of an unformed society or the tomb of a finished one."
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"Tobacco is the tomb of love."
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"I seal that which was not to be said in the tomb that I become."
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"Retirement without literary amusements is death itself, and a living tomb."
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"You shall not dwell in tombs made by the dead for the living."
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"Hate is a dead thing. Who of you would be a tomb?"
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