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"When her body first hit the net, all I registered was a gray blur. I pulled her across it and her hand was small, but warm, and then she stood before me, short and thin and plain and in all ways unremarkable- except that she had jumped first. The stiff had jumped first.Even I didn't jump first.Her eyes were so stern, so insistent.Beautiful."
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"Life has an end. We are all on a transit."
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"How talented was death. How many expressions and manipulations of hand, face, body, no two alike."
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"A principled life begins by accepting the evident truth that we must die. Death becomes us. Knowledge of the impermanence of our existence reassures us that how we live does make a difference. Because our allotted time for living is finite, we must make the most of each day."
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"His long wait is almost done. I am sending Balon Swann to Sunspear, to deliver him the head of Gregor Clegane. Ser Balon would have another task as well, but that part was best left unsaid."Ah. Ser Harys Swyft fumbled at his funny little beard with thumb and forefinger. "He is dead then? Ser Gregor?"I would think so, my lord, Aurane Waters said dryly. "I am told that removing the head from the body is often mortal."
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"God waits only the separation of spirit from flesh to crown us with a full reward. Why, then, should we ever sink overwhelmed with distress, when life is so soon over, and death is so certain an entrance to happiness -- to glory?"
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"Immortality doesn't fit with death,as mortal doesn't fit with eternity."
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"A human textbook. Study me in my slow and patient demise. Watch what happens to me. Learn with me. Morrie would walk that final bridge between life and death, and narrate the trip."
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"Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff;Life and these lips have long been separated:Death lies on her like an untimely frostUpon the sweetest flower of all the field."
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"For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,Must give us pause."
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"If one shifts the center of gravity of life out of life into the "Beyond " into nothingness " one has deprived life as such of its center of gravity. The great lie of personal immortality destroys all rationality, all naturalness of instinct, all that is salutary, all that is life-furthering."
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"I should have forgiven him."Maybe. Maybe there's more we all could have done, he says, "but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.I frown and pull back. That is a lesson that members of Abnegation learn " guilt as a tool, rather than a weapon against the self."
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"Maybe there's more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time."
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"Now she looks pale and small, but her eyes make me think of wide- open skies that I have never actually seen, only dreamed of."
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"Honor, I said with a snort. "Honor has no place in survival."
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"If someone offer you an opportunity to get closer to your enemy, you always take it."
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"Yeah, sometimes life really sucks," she says. "But you know what I'm holding on for?"I raise my eyebrows.She raises hers, too, mimicking me."The moments that don't suck," she says. "The trick is to notice them when they come around."
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"The person you became with her is worth being."
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"It isn't right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first."
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"You're desperate, and so am I,' I said. 'Desperate people make stupid decisions all the time.'"
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"Intentions are the only thing they care about. They try to make you think they care about what you do, but they don't. They don't want you to act a certain way, they want you to think a certain way. So you're easy to understand. So you wont pose a threat to them."
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