"The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn."

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John Pearson, British Theologian

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"For every death is a simplification of existence for the others, removes the necessity to show gratitude, the obligation to pay visits."

"Death is softer by far than tyranny."

"So finally I came up with a thing that felt really pure, and I'm Christian, so when I hear about death I have a lot of hope because I believe in Jesus and life after death, and John 3:16."

"Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste."

"As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead."

"Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it."

"First need in the reform of hospital management? That's easy! The death of all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef."

"Vulgar and common persons, as they carry nothing out of this world, so they leave nothing in it: they receive no eminency in their birth, they acquire none in their life, they have none when they die, they leave none at their death."

"What he has done for women is final: he gave to their service the best powers of his mind and the best years of his life. His death consecrates the gift: it can never lessen its value."

"Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony."

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