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"Life is a predicament which precedes death."
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"Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality."

"We cannot conceive death as anything else than the afterlife because we cannot comprehend death unless we live."

"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."

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

"Death has a life which kills everybody's life."
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"Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language."

"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

"It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them."

"Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women."

"There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition."

"People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid."
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