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"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."
"Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality."
"We cannot conceive death as anything else than the afterlife because we cannot comprehend death unless we live."
"It was octarine, the colour of magic. It was alive and glowing and vibrant and it was the undisputed pigment of the imagination, because wherever it appeared it was a sign that mere matter was a servant of the powers of the magical mind. It was enchantment itself.But Rincewind always thought it looked a sort of greenish-purple."
"The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired."
"The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat."
Explore more quotes by Louise Erdrich
"You know, some people fall right through the hole in their lives. It's invisible, but they come to it after time, never knowing where."
"Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, a place to love and be irritated with."
"Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other."
"I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on."
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