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Arthur Koestler

"Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion."

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"Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion."

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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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"This world's a city full of straying streets, and death's the market-place where each one meets."

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"She'll die.' 'Aye. That's a consequence of being alive."

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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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