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"I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different."
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"The dead aren't scary. They are just sad."
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"We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long."
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"Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men.Put out the light, and then put out the light:If I quench thee, thou flaming minister,I can again thy former light restore,Should I repent me: but once put out thy light,Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature,I know not where is that Promethean heatThat can thy light relume."
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"It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations."
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"Nothing in his life became him like leaving it."
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Personal Development
"Susan stared at him.The blue glow in Death's eyes gradually faded, and as the light died it sucked at her gaze so that it was dragged into the eye sockets and into the darkness beyond, which went on and on, for ever. There was no word for it. Even eternity was a human idea. Giving it a name gave it a length; admittedly, a very long one. But this darkness was what was left when eternity had given up. It was where Death lived. Alone."
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"Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it?"
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Personal Development
"Nico didn't like to be touched, but somehow this brief contact with his father felt reassuring " the same way the Chapel of Bones was reassuring. Like death, his father's presence was cold and often callous, but it was real " brutally honest, inescapably dependable."
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"For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium."
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"It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death."
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Explore more quotes by T. S. Eliot
"You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends,And how, how rare and strange it is, to findIn a life composed so much, so much of odds and ends,(For indeed I do not love it ... you knew? you are not blind! How keen you are!)To find a friend who has these qualities,Who has, and givesThose qualities upon which friendship lives.How much it means that I say this to you-Without these friendships-life, what cauchemar!"
Friendship
"Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature."
Literature
"A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give."
Literature
"Everyone's alone-or so it seems to me.They make noises, and think they are talking to each other;They make faces, and think they understand each other,And I'm sure they don't. Is that delusion?Can we only loveSomething created in our own imaginations?"
Emotion
"Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves."
Poetry
"A christian martyrdom is never an accident, for Saints are not made by accident."
Religion
"In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish."
Life
"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."
Time
"Should I after tea and cakes and ices have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?"
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"I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter."
Spiritual
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