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Peter Conrad

"Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose; also the first announcement of death."

Peter Conrad, British Author
Death, Faith, Wisdom, First
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"Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose; also the first announcement of death."

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"Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death."

Sun Tzu, Chinese Philosopher
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"I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist
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"Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings."

Horace, Roman Poet
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"To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent."

Buddha, Indian Leader
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"Death has a life which kills everybody's life."

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet
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"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval."

George Santayana, American Philosopher
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"If we really believe what we say we believe- if we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a "wandering to find home", why should we not look forward to the arrival. There are, aren't there, only three things we can do about death: to desire it, to fear it, or to ignore it. The third alternative, which is the one the modern world calls "healthy" is surely the most uneasy and precarious of all."

C. S. Lewis, British Author
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"Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever."

John Keats, English Poet
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"Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, 'You seem to be feeling better this morning,' and Isben looked at her and said, 'On the contrary,' and then he died."

John Green, American Author
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