"Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing."

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Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"Fair... You'd be amazed how often I hear that word, Frank Zhang,and how meaningless it is. Is it fair your life will burn so short and bright? Was it fair when I guided your mother to the Underworld? No, not fair. And yet it was her time. There is no fairness in Death. If you free me, I will do my duty."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

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"The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion."

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Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"To be closed as a person, it's not bad if you know that when this two rules, playing by your rules doesn't mean that you won't end up in jail, security why?We both know that everyone dies... it really doesn't matter who is first... in the end all die!"

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

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"He put the car in gear and went, feeling again how easy it had been to slip through an unexpected fissure in what he had considered a solid life- how easy it was to get over onto the dark side, to sail out of the blue and into the black."

Stephen King, American Author

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"It's not that I've 'faked my own death' as the saying goes. Maybe it's that I've 'faked my own life,' and in doing so I've yet to realize how dead I really am."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor."

"You are whatever you shall leave behind when you leave life!"

"If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success."

"It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much."

"The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion."

"The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after death.""

"To be closed as a person, it's not bad if you know that when this two rules, playing by your rules doesn't mean that you won't end up in jail, security why?We both know that everyone dies... it really doesn't matter who is first... in the end all die!"

"He put the car in gear and went, feeling again how easy it had been to slip through an unexpected fissure in what he had considered a solid life- how easy it was to get over onto the dark side, to sail out of the blue and into the black."

"It's not that I've 'faked my own death' as the saying goes. Maybe it's that I've 'faked my own life,' and in doing so I've yet to realize how dead I really am."

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"Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith."

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"I want to look at life - at the commonplaces of existence - as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time."

"In my plays I want to look at life - at the commonplace of existence-as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time."

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