"In the presence of death reason and philosophy are silent."

Mortality, Death, Reason, Silence, Emotion

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"In the presence of death reason and philosophy are silent."

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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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"Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead."

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