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"We do not die wholly at our deaths: we have moldered away gradually long before. Faculty after faculty interest after interest attachment after attachment disappear: we are torn from ourselves while living."
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"There is no conclusive evidence of life after death, but there is no evidence of any sort against it. Soon enough you will know, so why fret about it?"
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"Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly."
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"Among the tortures and devastations of life is this then-our friends are not able to finish their stories."
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"Are-you dying?" she asked."Just can't breathe. This air.""Poor, poor-good lord. I've forgotten your name.""Hell of a thing.""Barney!"He clutched her."No! Don't stop!" She arched her back. Her teeth chattered."I wasn't going to," he said. "Oooaugh!"He laughed."Don't please laugh at me.""Not meant unkindly."A long silence, then. Then, "Oof."
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"I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it."
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"Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing-a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces."
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"For he who lives more lives than one More deaths than one must die."
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"After you die, a rare friend or family member may carry your memory throughout life. Most will forget you. As if you were never here."
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"You could have died later on, you could have died after peace had been declared. But, in any case, you were going to die."
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"Personally, I always wondered about authors and celebrities who loudly declared there was no God. It was usually when they were healthy and popular and being listened to by crowds. What happens, I wondered, in the quiet moments before death? By then, they have lost the stage, the world has moved on. If suddenly, in their last gasping moments, through fear, a vision, a late enlightenment, they change their minds about God, who would know?"
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"Rules and models destroy genius and art."
Art


"A wise traveler never despises his own country."
Nation


"No truly great person ever thought themselves so."
Thought


"Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming."
Friendship


"That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident."
Self


"One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect."
Quality


"Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world."
Christian


"The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings."
Concern


"Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be."
Difference


"No young man ever thinks he shall die."
Man
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