"That death was near, I suppose I believed, but I saw it only as a rest after the day's work."

Death, Work, Day, Rest

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"That death was near, I suppose I believed, but I saw it only as a rest after the day's work."

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"To be invisible you shouldn't exist, first of all you should make everything that you are dead... second you are invisible. If you are dead it's not possible the thought to exist!"

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"Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death."

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"Tyler lies back and asks, "If Marilyn Monroe were alive right now, what would she be doing?"I say, goodnight.The headliner hangs down in shreds from the ceiling and Tyler says, "Clawing at the lid of her coffin."

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"Nothing in his life became him like leaving it."

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"That death was near, I suppose I believed, but I saw it only as a rest after the day's work."

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"It is in Virginia and Georgia that the war now rages and where it will continue; for at these points - Richmond and Atlanta - the enemy's main strength is concentrated."

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"Gen. Banks has issued an order for the instruction of Negro children. Schoolhouses are to be built or rented and Teachers hired for this purpose, and the farmers and planters are to pay the Taxes in support of this."

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"I know that money speaks more loudly than need."

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"Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi."

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"But it is neither cannon nor bayonet that will do the worst damage to this city. No, this place will remember the war against our government just as long as there are inhabitants here."

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"The scene was not a happy one yet we looked upon it in the cold stoical spirit of a soldier; a slight chilling pang and then a return soul and body to the enemy before us."

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"Mess is fairly good. It is like what is found in American hotels except for cake and pie."

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"You must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong."

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"We set the town on fire and burned down every house as a warning to other small towns along the river."

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