"I think Bonzo died. I dreamed about it last night. I remembered the way he looked after I jammed his face with my head. I think I must have pushed his nose back into his brain. The blood was coming out of his eyes. I think he was dead right then."

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"I think Bonzo died. I dreamed about it last night. I remembered the way he looked after I jammed his face with my head. I think I must have pushed his nose back into his brain. The blood was coming out of his eyes. I think he was dead right then."

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"But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool;And time, that takes survey of all the world,Must have a stop. O, I could prophesy,But that the earthy and cold hand of deathLies on my tongue."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"There is no conclusive evidence of life after death, but there is no evidence of any sort against it. Soon enough you will know, so why fret about it?"

Robert A. Heinlein, American Writer

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"Your past is a skeleton walking one step behind you, and your future is a a skeleton walking one step in front of you. Maybe you don't wear a watch, but your skeletons do, and they always know what time it is."

Sherman Alexie, American Writer

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"Dead people are just great. Meet me when you are."

Fakeer Ishavardas, Indian Spiritual Leader

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"Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly."

Elbert Hubbard, American Writer

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"We're going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones."

Richard Dawkins, English Scientist

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"If you live each day as if it were your last, someday you'll be right."

Steve Jobs, American Businessman

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"Death is a strange thing. People live their whole lives as if it does not exist, and yet it's often one of the great motivations for living. Some of us, in time, become so conscious of it that we live harder, more obstinately, with more fury."

Fredrik Backman, Swedish Author

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"If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up?"

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

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"Alive ridiculous and dead forgot?"

Alexander Pope, English Poet

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"My master wishes to see you," said the mounted man."When the planting's done," I said."Lord Barton is unaccustomed to waiting.""Then he should rejoice, for he'll learn something new today." I went back to the garden. Soon the servant left."

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"That's the problem with winning right from the start, thought Ender. you lose friends."

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"He committed the crime of stupidity while under my command," said Citizen."Oh my," said Rigg. "They're handing out the death penalty for that these days?"

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"Fatherhood to us was an act of passion, soon forgot; but not to Orem ap Avonap. Never guessing that the blond and happy farmer was no blood of his, Orem had taken a part of that simple man into himself and saved it for this time. At any time in the Palace he might run by, Youth on this shoulders or, as time went by, toddling along behind."

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