"How talented was death. How many expressions and manipulations of hand, face, body, no two alike."

Mortality, Death, Expression, Emotion, Art

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"How talented was death. How many expressions and manipulations of hand, face, body, no two alike."

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"Many want to live long, and ignore pangs of eternity."

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"Never fear Death for you will feel aroused by his sleep. Never cheat death or he will slap you with a sentence of misery for the defeat."

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"The driver, a black silhouette upon his box, whipped up his bony horses. Icy silence in the coach. Marius, motionless, his body braced in the corner of the carriage, his head dropping down upon his breast, his arms hanging, his legs rigid, appeared to await nothing now but a coffin; Jean Valjean seemed made of shadow, and Javert of stone."

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"The fact that you have just buried your parent or parents and/or sibling or siblings does not make you less likely to die today."

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"Let me tell you something about dying: it's not as bad as they says.it's the coming-back-to-life part that hurts."

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"I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, Spencer is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I'm not feeling so well myself."

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"Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death, but I think, as I thought then, that it is better to die violently and not too old."

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"From now on I hope always to stay alert, to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in Future I will relaxedly turn back to my secret mind to see what it has observed when I thought I was sitting this one out. We never sit anything out.We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out."

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"Her eyes reversed into herself, to watch the secret heart of herself pounding itself into pieces against the side of her chest."

Emotion

"It is a subliminal thing. It is the tick of a clock that has ticked so long one no longer notices. Something is in a room when a man lives in it. Something is not in the room when a man is dead in it."

Existence

"Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love."

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"We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of on good rain and black loam."

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"It doesn't matter what you do...so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away."

Change

"It is a lie to write in such way as to be rewarded by fame offered you by some snobbish quasi-literary groups in the intellectual gazettes."

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"Life should be touched, not strangled."

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"Then, left alone, shivering, I happened to glance up. I stood, I froze, blinking up through the drift, the drift, the silent drift of blinding snow. I saw the high hotel windows, the lights, the shadows.What's it like up there? I thought. Are fires lit? Is it warm as breath? Who are all those people? Are they drinking? Are they happy?Do they even know I'm HERE?"

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"You fail only if you stop writing."

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