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"Peter Van Houten was the only person I'd ever come across who seemed to (a) understand what it'slike to be dying, and (b) not have died."
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"Life has an end. We are all on a transit."
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"A human textbook. Study me in my slow and patient demise. Watch what happens to me. Learn with me. Morrie would walk that final bridge between life and death, and narrate the trip."
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"For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,Must give us pause."
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"That's the kind of death that frightens me. The shadow of death slowly, slowly eats away at the region of life, and before you know it everything's dark and you can't see, and the people around you think of you as more dead than alive."
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"One day we will all wear a garment which has no pockets..."
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"..And because he was still able to move his hands - Morrie always spoke with both hands waving - he showed great passion when explaining how you face the end of life."
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"Her words didn't have the acrid smell of death."
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"Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath hath had no power yet upon thy beauty."
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"People lose fifty million skin cells every day. The cells get scraped off and turn into invisible dust, and disappear into the air. Maybe we are nothing but skin cells as far as the world is concerned."
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"Bod shrugged. "So?" he said. "It's only death. I mean, all of my best friends are dead."
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"My thoughts are stars I can't fanthom into constellations."
Imagination


"This is unbearable ... God. These books she'll never read. Her Life's Library."
Loss


"There are always answers. We just have to be smart enough."
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"The oblivion fear is something else, fear that I won't be able to give anything in exchange for my life. If you don't live a life in service of a greater good, you've gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know? And I fear that I won't get either a life or a death that means anything."
Philosophy


"Physical intimacy isn't and can never be an effective substitute for emotional intimacy."
Love


"This is all so CHILDISH PATHETIC. YOU'RE EMBARASSING. GET OVER IT GET OVER IT GET OVER IT. But he did not quite know what "it" was."
Emotion


"Jesus, I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're going to do. I'm just going to do it."
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"If people were rain, I was a drizzle and she was a hurricaine."
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"I would never slay the dragon, because the dragon was also me."
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"So dawn goes down today... Nothing gold can stay.-- Robert Frost."
Life
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