"To Suspect your Own Mortality is to Know the Beginning of Terror, To Learn Irrefutably that you are mortal is to Know the End of Terror."

Mortality, Learning, End, Beginning

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"To Suspect your Own Mortality is to Know the Beginning of Terror, To Learn Irrefutably that you are mortal is to Know the End of Terror."

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"Never fear Death for you will feel aroused by his sleep. Never cheat death or he will slap you with a sentence of misery for the defeat."

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"The driver, a black silhouette upon his box, whipped up his bony horses. Icy silence in the coach. Marius, motionless, his body braced in the corner of the carriage, his head dropping down upon his breast, his arms hanging, his legs rigid, appeared to await nothing now but a coffin; Jean Valjean seemed made of shadow, and Javert of stone."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"The fact that you have just buried your parent or parents and/or sibling or siblings does not make you less likely to die today."

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"Let me tell you something about dying: it's not as bad as they says.it's the coming-back-to-life part that hurts."

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"I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, Spencer is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I'm not feeling so well myself."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"The thin line between life and death is still under construction."

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"Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death, but I think, as I thought then, that it is better to die violently and not too old."

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"Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken."

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"The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent."

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"I am not the river I am the net."

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"It is far better to win a battle through skilled leadership and wise decisions than violence and bloodshed. It may not seem as glorious to the uninitiated, but in the end it results in fewer wounds--of any kind."

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"Governments always commit their entire populations when the demands grow heavy enough. By their passive acceptance, these populations become accessories to whatever is done in their name."

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"There will be sadness," Alia intoned. "I remind you that all things are but beginning, forever beginning. Worlds wait to be conquered. Some within the sound of my voice will attain exalted destinies. You will sneer at the past, forgetting what I tell you now: within all differences there is unity."

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