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"You are whatever you shall leave behind when you leave life!"

"Again, somehow, one saw life, a pure bead. I lifted the pencil again, useless though I knew it to be. But even as I did so, the unmistakable tokens of death showed themselves. The body relaxed, and instantly grew stiff. The struggle was over. The insignificant little creature now knew death. As I looked at the dead moth, this minute wayside triumph of so great a force over so mean an antagonist filled me with wonder. Just as life had been strange a few minutes before, so death was now as strange."

"Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species."

"At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom."
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"As I laid in the hospital bed I started thinking that I had a show to do. I was hoping the Doctor would put me together so I could do the show."

"So be encouraged and dedicate yourself to your dream and if your dream should come my way one day then we will dance upon the boards of life."

"Nine years after I had my own accident, I find that in trying to go back to doing those things that I used to do just doesn't fit. Everything seems to just fall apart. I don't know why but I think it is because I am this new creature."

"Sometimes we look for those thunderous things to happen in our life for our lives to change or go in the other direction. We seek the miracle. We seek the parting of the seas, the moving of the mountains. But no, it's a quiet thing. At least for me it was."

"The death of my daughter is a subject I talk about briefly because there is nothing more tragic."
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