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"I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death."
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"The dead aren't scary. They are just sad."
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"We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long."
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"Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men.Put out the light, and then put out the light:If I quench thee, thou flaming minister,I can again thy former light restore,Should I repent me: but once put out thy light,Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature,I know not where is that Promethean heatThat can thy light relume."
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"It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations."
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"Nothing in his life became him like leaving it."
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"Susan stared at him.The blue glow in Death's eyes gradually faded, and as the light died it sucked at her gaze so that it was dragged into the eye sockets and into the darkness beyond, which went on and on, for ever. There was no word for it. Even eternity was a human idea. Giving it a name gave it a length; admittedly, a very long one. But this darkness was what was left when eternity had given up. It was where Death lived. Alone."
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"Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it?"
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"For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death."
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"Nico didn't like to be touched, but somehow this brief contact with his father felt reassuring " the same way the Chapel of Bones was reassuring. Like death, his father's presence was cold and often callous, but it was real " brutally honest, inescapably dependable."
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"They found him guilty, and brother, if Maine had the death penalty, he would have done the airdance before that spring's crocuses poked their heads out of the dirt."
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"Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves."
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"The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life."
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"All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain."
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"He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy."
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"Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy."
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"The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them."
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"No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it."
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"Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues."
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