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"A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor."
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"If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success."
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"Death is the ultimate cessation of the individual Self."
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"Red sky at night, the city's alight."
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"Death is number one on the list of things that we wish were possible to leave behind when we escaped barbarism."
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"The character who was like me he died at 46, even it was 2008 year so far his name was David Foster Wallace."
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"Most people do not mind dying, as long as that does not happen today."
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"It's not morbid to talk about death. Most people don't worry about death, they worry about a bad death."
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"The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking."
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"Attending a funeral would leave the average person insane, if they truly believed that sooner or later they are also going to die."
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"Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life."
Death
"A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself."
Self-Perception
"Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light."
Death
"The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose."
Poems
"I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell."
Fear
"From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity."
Body
"This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution."
Art
"No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love."
Love
"Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness."
Art
"Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder."
Health
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