"Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire."

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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."

"If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success."

"Death is the ultimate cessation of the individual Self."

"Red sky at night, the city's alight."

"Death is number one on the list of things that we wish were possible to leave behind when we escaped barbarism."

"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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"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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