"Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death."

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"Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death."

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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."

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"As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death."

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Emily Dickinson, American Poet

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"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."

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"The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired."

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