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"If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up?"
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"Bod shrugged. "So?" he said. "It's only death. I mean, all of my best friends are dead."
"All who die, are all worldly beings (sansari " believing the worldly life to be real)."
"Nothing matters when you are dead, and, you are dead when nothing matters."
"To die is different from what anyone supposed, and luckier."
"They say, the sun brings life to the world. The sun will rise and look is it not a corpse? Everything is dead and there are corpses everywhere. Just people and around them silence__that is the world! "Love one another"__who said that? Whose command is that? The pendulum swings unfeelingly, antagonistically. It's two o'clock at night. Her slippers are standing by her bed, as if waiting for her.... No, seriously, when they take her away tomorrow, what shall I do?"
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"If you never have sex you never gain a sense of power. You never gain a voice or an identity of your own. Sex is the act that separates us from our parents. Children from adults. It's by having sex that adolescents first rebel.And if you never have sex, you never grow beyond everything else your parents taught you. If you never break the rule against sex, you won't break any other rule."
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"Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping."
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