"Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun."

Death, Life, Loss, Possession

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"Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun."

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Joseph Addison, English Writer

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"Normality is death."

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher

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"Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people."

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"Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly."

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"For children preserve the fame of a man after his death."

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