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"There is no conclusive evidence of life after death, but there is no evidence of any sort against it. Soon enough you will know, so why fret about it?"

"In the last photograph of her, the bullet wound looked like a cheerful summer rose arranged just above her left ear. A few petals had fallen on her kaffan, the white shroud she was wrapped in before she was laid to rest."

"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."

"Whether you like it or not, your life is passing away."

"Everything diminishes and everything is destructible."
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"You don't have to finish today, what is important is that you finish. But remember today might be the last day of your life."

"A good man can be destroyed by the association with men of evil character. A wise man can learn from them."

"If anyone rises to power, it's not only because he could, but also because the stars were aligned in his favor. Many with apparent means to take it failed simply because they weren't destined for the honor."

"It's not that success is guaranteed that we go to war. It's because it is the only alternative we have left to avoid annihilation."
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