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"While we watched without comprehension, she moved away to where none of us wanted to follow. Ruth May shrank back through the narrow passage between this brief fabric of light and all the rest of what there is for us: the long waiting. Now she will wait the rest of the time. It will be exactly as long as the time that passed before she was born."
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"Life has an end. We are all on a transit."
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"For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,Must give us pause."
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"One day we will all wear a garment which has no pockets..."
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"Her words didn't have the acrid smell of death."
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"Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath hath had no power yet upon thy beauty."
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"People lose fifty million skin cells every day. The cells get scraped off and turn into invisible dust, and disappear into the air. Maybe we are nothing but skin cells as far as the world is concerned."
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"Bod shrugged. "So?" he said. "It's only death. I mean, all of my best friends are dead."
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"All who die, are all worldly beings (sansari " believing the worldly life to be real)."
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"Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning."
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"Nothing matters when you are dead, and, you are dead when nothing matters."
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"The truth needs so little rehearsal."
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"It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time."
Time

"What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive."
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"Don't try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you're good, bad things can still happen. And if you're bad, you can still be lucky."
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"To live is to change, to die one hundred deaths."
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"People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own."
Behavior

"I never learn anything from listening to myself."
Self

"This will be Great Mam's last spring. Her last June apples. Her last fresh roasting ears from the garden."
Reflection

"The changes we dread most may contain our salvation."
Life

"A first child is your own best foot forward, and how you do cheer those little feet as they strike out. You examine every turn of flesh for precocity, and crow it to the world. But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be no more coming after--oh, that' s love by a different name."
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