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"Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed."
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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."
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"If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success."
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"Death is the ultimate cessation of the individual Self."
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"Red sky at night, the city's alight."
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"Death is number one on the list of things that we wish were possible to leave behind when we escaped barbarism."
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"The character who was like me he died at 46, even it was 2008 year so far his name was David Foster Wallace."
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"Most people do not mind dying, as long as that does not happen today."
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"It's not morbid to talk about death. Most people don't worry about death, they worry about a bad death."
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"The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking."
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"Attending a funeral would leave the average person insane, if they truly believed that sooner or later they are also going to die."
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"Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them."
Time
"Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies."
Nature
"Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars. They belong not to one system, one nation only, but to the universe. And just because they are so very far away, it is usually many years before their light is visible to the inhabitants of this earth."
Literature
"Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right."
Nation
"With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy."
Talent
"Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money."
Happiness
"We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack."
Gratitude
"Every society requires mutual accommodation and mutually agreeable temper; hence the larger it is, the duller."
Society
"Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly."
History
"NOT to my contemporaries, not to my compatriots but to mankind I commit my now completed work in the confidence that it will not be without value for them, even if this should be late recognised, as is commonly the lot of what is good. For it cannot have been for the passing generation, engrossed with the delusion of the moment, that my mind, almost against my will, has uninterruptedly stuck to its work through the course of a long life.preface to the second edition of "the world as will and representation."
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