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"Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it."
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"We'd rather they were ours and dead than yours and made immortal."
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"We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything."
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"There was a party of well-dressed people with Gilt, and as they progressed accoss the room the whole place began to revolve around the big man, gold being very dense and having a gravity all of its own."
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"In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not."
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"All is forgotten in the stone halls of the dead. These are the rooms of ruin where the spiders spin and the great circuits fall quiet, one by one..."
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"Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other."
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"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it."
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"For some folks death is release, and for others death is an abomination, a terrible thing. But in the end, I'm there for all of them."
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"Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it?"
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"When weeds go to heaven, I suppose they will be flowers."
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"When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself?"
Sacrifice
"Supposing there is no life everlasting. Think what it means if death is really the end of all things. They've given up all for nothing. They've been cheated. They're dupes."Waddington reflected for a little while. "I wonder if it matters what they have aimed at is illusion. Their lives are in themselves beautiful. I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books the write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art."
Reflection
"The passing moment is all we can be sure of it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it."
Mindfulness
"I have always hesitated to give advice, for how can one advise another how to act unless one knows that other as well as one knows himself? Heaven knows. I know little enough of myself: I know nothing of others. We can only guess at the thoughts and emotions of our neighbours. Each one of us is a prisoner in a solitary tower and he communicates with the other prisoners, who form mankind, by conventional signs that have not quite the same meaning for them as for himself."
Wisdom
"Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction."
Simplicity
"Philip looked at his own work. How could you tell whether there was anything in it or whether you were wasting your time? It was clear that the will to achieve could not help you and confidence in yourself meantnothing."
Work
"I only wanted to suggest to you that self-sacrifice is a passion so overwhelming that beside it even lust and hunger are trifling."
Sacrifice
"The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself."
Philosophy
"What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature."
Life
"What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories."
Age
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