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"I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death."
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"The dead boy in his arms hung with his head back and those partly opened eyes beheld nothing at all out of that passing landscape of street or wall or paling sky or the figures of the children who stood blessing themselves in the gray light. This man and his burden passed on forever out of that nameless crossroads and the women stepped once more into the street and the children followed and all continued on to their appointed places which as some believe were chosen long ago even to the beginning of the world."
"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?"
"We the living are to blame for the painfulness of being dead."
"Death is a long process," Archer says. "Your body is just the first part of you that croaks." Meaning: Beyond that, your dreams have to die. Then your expectations. And your anger about investing a lifetime in learning shit and loving people and earning money, only to have all that crap come to basically nothing. Really, your physical body dying is the easy part. Beyond that, your memories must die. And your ego. Your pride and shame and ambition and hope, all that Personal Identity Crap can take centuries to expire."
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"Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,-Wait and hope."
"How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it."
"Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds."
"That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?"
"Women sometimes allow you to be unfaithful to their love, they never allow you to wound their self-esteem."
"I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol."
"Happy! who can answer for that? Happiness or unhappiness is the secret known but to oneself."
"Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart."
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