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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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Personal Development
"Nothing in his life became him like leaving it."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it?"
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium."
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"It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death."
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"I was never directly pressured by peers, but by surrounding myself with others who were experimenting with smoking provided a certain false comfort."
Comfort
"I don't think that artists of any kind would or could sacrifice their artistic freedom by being more responsible with their influence on people, especially young people."
Sacrifice
"I started practicing Yoga at about 18. I had a friend who was doing it and was incredibly disciplined and meditated all the time."
Time
"I never understand why people have children and then insist on living as though nothing has shifted."
People
"Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives."
Death
"I would be very proud to have influenced anyone that I know or don't know to quit smoking."
Smoking
"Yoga has brought me closer to myself. It's helped me realize the interconnectedness of the mind, body and spirit, in the Buddhist sense of the word."
Buddhist
"I have lots of other mountains that I would like to climb. I have no dream of Everest, but there are some, like Mount Fuji, I'd like to do."
Dream
"Parents should be the most important examples for their children."
Children
"It is education that will arm us with the tools that will enable us to succeed and put a stop to the rising rates of preventable death."
Death
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