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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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Personal Development
"Nothing in his life became him like leaving it."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius."
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"When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism."
Death
"The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down."
Church
"The more liberty you give away the more you will have."
Liberty
"It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead."
Habit
"The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others."
Strength
"Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell."
Religion
"In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences."
Nature
"It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense."
Education
"Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so."
Happiness
"It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions."
Age
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