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"He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it."
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"When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about."
"The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble."
"A "modern" man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice."
"Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food."
"The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand."
"Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves."
"There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth."
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"You are whatever you shall leave behind when you leave life!"
"It's a harrowing experience to see death approaching in haste towards you, what is hell but confronting your own mortality."
"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."
"The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after death.""
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