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Henry James

"Life is a predicament which precedes death."

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"Life is a predicament which precedes death."

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"An evil life is a kind of death."

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"Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all."

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"As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy 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."

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

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"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."

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

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"For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night."

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"Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy."

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"Death has a life which kills everybody's life."

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