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"For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep."
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"The dead aren't scary. They are just sad."
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"We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long."
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"Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men.Put out the light, and then put out the light:If I quench thee, thou flaming minister,I can again thy former light restore,Should I repent me: but once put out thy light,Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature,I know not where is that Promethean heatThat can thy light relume."
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"It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations."
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"Nothing in his life became him like leaving it."
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"Susan stared at him.The blue glow in Death's eyes gradually faded, and as the light died it sucked at her gaze so that it was dragged into the eye sockets and into the darkness beyond, which went on and on, for ever. There was no word for it. Even eternity was a human idea. Giving it a name gave it a length; admittedly, a very long one. But this darkness was what was left when eternity had given up. It was where Death lived. Alone."
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"Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it?"
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"For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death."
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"Nico didn't like to be touched, but somehow this brief contact with his father felt reassuring " the same way the Chapel of Bones was reassuring. Like death, his father's presence was cold and often callous, but it was real " brutally honest, inescapably dependable."
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"They found him guilty, and brother, if Maine had the death penalty, he would have done the airdance before that spring's crocuses poked their heads out of the dirt."
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"Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim."
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"Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment."
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"All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato."
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"Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up."
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"Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men."
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"If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved."
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"Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace."
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"Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions."
Hope

"In Greece wise men speak and fools decide."
Man

"Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different."
Friendship
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