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"Do not forever with thy vailed lidsSeek for thy noble father in the dust.Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die,Passing though nature to eternity."
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"Death is the ultimate cessation of the individual Self."
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"DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH."
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"Funerals, I had decided, are for the living."
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"The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death."
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"That's part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence."
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"No one dies in the language of the Gnani (the Self-realized one) and every one dies in the language of the agnani (non-Self-realized person). The agnani (non-Self-realized person) mourns and grieves, and the Gnani simply 'Sees'."
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"People don't like to talk about death because it makes them sad."
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"We care about the dead. We try with our lives to honor theirs. That's how we make our lives meaningful, and how we make their lives meaningful, too."
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"Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another."
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"I remembered that, and, remembering that, I remembered everything."
Memory
"Perhaps it was an afterimage, I decided, or a ghost: something that had stirred in my mind, for a moment, so powerfully that I believed it to be real, but now was gone, and faded into the past like a memory forgotten, or a shadow into the dusk."
Memory
"Different people remember things differently, and you'll not get any two people to remember anything the same, whether they were there or not. You stand two of you lot next to each other, and you could be continents away for all it means anything."
Memory
"But we do not need to recount every sermon and eulogy. After all, you were there."
Memory
"I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled."
Memory
"Hasn't there always been a moon?""Bless you. Not in the slightest. I remember the day the moon came. We looked up in the sky--it was all dirty brown and sooty gray here then, not green and blue..."
History
"I'm writing. The pages are starting to stack up. My morale is improving the more I feel like a writer."
Creativity
"If there is a moral to this part of the story, and I distrust morals in the same way that I distrust beginnings, it is simply this: know that with which you deal."
Philosophy
"Loki was trying to look serious, but even so, he was smiling at the corners of his mouth. It was not a reassuring smile."
Emotion
"Books are really places, make no mistake about that."
Literature
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