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Friedrich Durrenmatt

"When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words."

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"When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words."

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"DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH."

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"The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death."

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"That's part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence."

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"No one dies in the language of the Gnani (the Self-realized one) and every one dies in the language of the agnani (non-Self-realized person). The agnani (non-Self-realized person) mourns and grieves, and the Gnani simply 'Sees'."

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"Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason."
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"I am a man, and God is hiding from us humans. We are unable to see Him, we can only search for Him."
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