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"Your life on earth is but for a few days and before you know it, you are no more."
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"An expensive coffin does not decrease the deceased's chances of going to hell."
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Personal Development
"Over the lives borne from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness."
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"Sometimes things happen in our lives that wake us up to the truth, about how short life is. It's then we wonder why we spent so much wasted time looking too far into the future."
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Personal Development
"The worker picked up Pakhom's spade, dug a grave, and buried him - six feet from head to heel, exactly the amount of land a man needs."
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"It was another country. It was a country for the young, a country where you died before you got old."
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"The suicide! What would he have done if death did not exist?"
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"Tombstones covered the dale, the smooth marble surfaces bright. She had spent days here as a teenager, though not out of any awareness of mortality. Like every adolescent, she intended to live forever."
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"If this is death, if we are dead or dying or even if we are living and just going to die, then what do we have to fear? What are we worried about? I think the knowledge of death is freeing. That pressure we feel, the weight of life and its impending conclusion, is imaginary. And the fact that we're all in this together is unifying: there's solidarity in mortality."
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"The very possibility of death focuses the mind wonderfully."
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"A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide."
Death
"We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing."
Old
"Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness."
Happiness
"I hate being placed on committees. They are always having meetings at which half are absent and the rest late."
Society
"A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself stupidity often saves a man from going mad."
Psychology
"I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap."
Time
"We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to."
Expectation
"A man is a kind of inverted thermometer the bulb uppermost and the column of self-valuation is all the time going up and down."
Self
"When I feel inclined to read poetry I take down my dictionary. The poetry of words is quite as beautiful as the poetry of sentences."
Poetry
"When in doubt do it."
Action
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