"The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration."

Death, Life, Nature, Delight

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"The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration."

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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."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"Death is the ultimate cessation of the individual Self."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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"Red sky at night, the city's alight."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"The character who was like me he died at 46, even it was 2008 year so far his name was David Foster Wallace."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

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"Most people do not mind dying, as long as that does not happen today."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"It's not morbid to talk about death. Most people don't worry about death, they worry about a bad death."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"Attending a funeral would leave the average person insane, if they truly believed that sooner or later they are also going to die."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"Once very near the end I said, 'If you can -- if it is allowed -- come to me when I too am on my death bed.' 'Allowed!' she said. 'Heaven would have a job to hold me; and as for Hell, I'd break it into bits."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"Because religion has such a compelling hold on the deep psyches of so many people, feminists cannot afford to leave it in the hands of the fathers."

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"The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before."

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"I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's."

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