"It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous."

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"The dead aren't scary. They are just sad."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

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"We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long."

Stephen King, American Author

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"Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men.Put out the light, and then put out the light:If I quench thee, thou flaming minister,I can again thy former light restore,Should I repent me: but once put out thy light,Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature,I know not where is that Promethean heatThat can thy light relume."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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John Green, American Author

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"Nothing in his life became him like leaving it."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Susan stared at him.The blue glow in Death's eyes gradually faded, and as the light died it sucked at her gaze so that it was dragged into the eye sockets and into the darkness beyond, which went on and on, for ever. There was no word for it. Even eternity was a human idea. Giving it a name gave it a length; admittedly, a very long one. But this darkness was what was left when eternity had given up. It was where Death lived. Alone."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it?"

Stephen King, American Author

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"Nico didn't like to be touched, but somehow this brief contact with his father felt reassuring " the same way the Chapel of Bones was reassuring. Like death, his father's presence was cold and often callous, but it was real " brutally honest, inescapably dependable."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

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"For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium."

Albert Camus, French Philosopher

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"Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise."

Stanislav Grof, Czechoslovakian Psychologist

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"The dead aren't scary. They are just sad."

"We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long."

"It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations."

"Nothing in his life became him like leaving it."

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"Nico didn't like to be touched, but somehow this brief contact with his father felt reassuring " the same way the Chapel of Bones was reassuring. Like death, his father's presence was cold and often callous, but it was real " brutally honest, inescapably dependable."

"For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium."

"Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise."

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"Law and justice are not always the same."

"Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood."

"We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach."

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