"Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death."

Death, Living, Sickness, Sleep

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"Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death."

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"These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated as possessions to be economically exploited. At least we hope that such colonialism is on the way out."

Emily Greene Balch, American Educator

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"The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place."

Percy Bysshe Shelley, English Poet

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"The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up."

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"For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread."

Rebecca H. Davis, American Author

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"All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead."

Anna Akhmatova, Russian Poet

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"Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, Who suffered death because she chose to turn."

Anna Akhmatova, Russian Poet

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"Fyodor Pavlovitch was drunk when he heard of his wife's death, and the story is that he ran out into the street and began shouting with joy, raising his hands to Heaven: "Lord, now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace," but others say he wept without restraint like a little child, so much so that people were sorry for him, in spite of the repulsion he inspired. It is quite possible that both versions were true, that he rejoiced at his release, and at the same time wept for her who released him."

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist

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