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"Your life on earth is but for a few days and before you know it, you are no more."
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Personal Development
"Over the lives borne from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness."
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Personal Development
"It was another country. It was a country for the young, a country where you died before you got old."
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Personal Development
"The suicide! What would he have done if death did not exist?"
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Personal Development
"The very possibility of death focuses the mind wonderfully."
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Personal Development
"Will be there any spinoff?A lesson?Person of Interest have a lessons... first we all die alone as a second when you start understanding the somebody... it comes a moment when the cards end up and he dies."
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"And then his noise falls completely silent-And he stops struggling-And looking right into my eyes-He dies.My Todd dies."
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Personal Development
"The Waystone was his, just as the third silence was his. This was appropriate, as it was the greatest silence of the three, wrapping the others inside itself. It was deep and wide as autumn's ending. It was heavy as a great river-smooth stone. It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die."
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"Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand."
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"Man is dust. Rue is rain. Life is mud."
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"I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars."
Family
"The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define."
Friendship
"Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety."
Religion
"The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal."
Society
"Nonsense and beauty have close connections."
Beauty
"For a wonderful physical tie binds the parents to the children; and-by some sad, strange irony-it does not bind us children to our parents. For if it did, if we could answer their love not with gratitude but with equal love, life would lose much of its pathos and much of its squalor, and we might be wonderfully happy."
Relationship
"Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life."
Life
"I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends."
Friendship
"Our life on earth is and ought to be material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly they are still entangled with the desire for ownership."
Philosophy
"Mr. Herriton, don't " please, Mr. Herriton " a dentist. His father's a dentist. Philip gave a cry of personal disgust and pain. He shuddered all over, and edged away from his companion. A dentist! A dentist at Monteriano. A dentist in fairyland! False teeth and laughing gas and the tilting chair at a place which knew the Etruscan League, and the Pax Romana, and Alaric himself, and the Countess Matilda, and the Middle Ages, all fighting and holiness, and the Renaissance, all fighting and beauty! He thought of Lilia no longer. He was anxious for himself: he feared that Romance might die."
Society
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