"Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!"

Mortality, Love, Death, Passion, Mystery

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"Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!"

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Joseph Conrad, Polish Novelist

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"It was another country. It was a country for the young, a country where you died before you got old."

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Marty Rubin, American Author

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"The very possibility of death focuses the mind wonderfully."

Jasper Fforde, British Novelist

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Deyth Banger, American Blogger

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"And then his noise falls completely silent-And he stops struggling-And looking right into my eyes-He dies.My Todd dies."

Patrick Ness, American Author

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"The Waystone was his, just as the third silence was his. This was appropriate, as it was the greatest silence of the three, wrapping the others inside itself. It was deep and wide as autumn's ending. It was heavy as a great river-smooth stone. It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die."

Patrick Rothfuss, Australian Athlete

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"Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

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"Man is dust. Rue is rain. Life is mud."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"I don't think anyone is thinking long-term now."

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"A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."

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"The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea."

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"There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect."

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"The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life."

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"All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life."

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"For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts."

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"A harmful truth is better than a useful lie."

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