"To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death."

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"To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death."

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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."

"If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success."

"Death is the ultimate cessation of the individual Self."

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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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