"What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death."

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"What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death."

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"A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"You are whatever you shall leave behind when you leave life!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"Fair... You'd be amazed how often I hear that word, Frank Zhang,and how meaningless it is. Is it fair your life will burn so short and bright? Was it fair when I guided your mother to the Underworld? No, not fair. And yet it was her time. There is no fairness in Death. If you free me, I will do my duty."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

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"The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after death.""

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

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"A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the innumerable instances where one would have experienced pain."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"To be closed as a person, it's not bad if you know that when this two rules, playing by your rules doesn't mean that you won't end up in jail, security why?We both know that everyone dies... it really doesn't matter who is first... in the end all die!"

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

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"Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it."

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"The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication."

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"Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material."

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"Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others."

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"Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art."

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"So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful."

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"The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste."

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"What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine."

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"The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means."

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