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"There is something about poverty that smells like death."
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"You are whatever you shall leave behind when you leave life!"
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"Again, somehow, one saw life, a pure bead. I lifted the pencil again, useless though I knew it to be. But even as I did so, the unmistakable tokens of death showed themselves. The body relaxed, and instantly grew stiff. The struggle was over. The insignificant little creature now knew death. As I looked at the dead moth, this minute wayside triumph of so great a force over so mean an antagonist filled me with wonder. Just as life had been strange a few minutes before, so death was now as strange."
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"We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place."
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"Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life."
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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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"To lose a son under those circumstances - a violent death like my son went through, it just puts a burden on your heart."
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"A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it."
Time

"Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground."
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"Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow."
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"Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place."
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"It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser."
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"If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding."
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"The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell."
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"I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife."
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"Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear."
Anger

"It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say."
People
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