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"To accept a little death is worse than death itself."
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"To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be."
Truth
"Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken."
Change
"The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action."
People
"The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian."
Being
"If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual."
Government
"The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent."
Change
"Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it."
Power
"CHOAM is business and business follows profits."
Business
"The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion."
Communication
"He learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult."
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"I carry the seeds of death within me and plant them wherever I linger long enough to love."
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"Many want to live long, and ignore pangs of eternity."
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"Life is but a breath. The end of life is the last breath of a man."
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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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"There is only one thing in this world shittier than biting it from cancer when you're sixteen, and that's having a kid who bites it from cancer."
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"It doth not hurt", whispered a faint voice, "She will take you life and all you are and all you care'st for, and she will leave you with nothing but mist and fog. She'll take your joy. And one day you'll wake and your heart and soul will have gone. A husk you'll be, a wisp you'll be, and a thing no more than a dream on waking, or a memory of something forgotten."
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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."
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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."
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