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Jasper Fforde

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

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

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Amber Hurdle

"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?"

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"After you die, a rare friend or family member may carry your memory throughout life. Most will forget you. As if you were never here."

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Amber Hurdle

"Personally, I always wondered about authors and celebrities who loudly declared there was no God. It was usually when they were healthy and popular and being listened to by crowds. What happens, I wondered, in the quiet moments before death? By then, they have lost the stage, the world has moved on. If suddenly, in their last gasping moments, through fear, a vision, a late enlightenment, they change their minds about God, who would know?"

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Amber Hurdle

"One can not come back from life."

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Amber Hurdle

"Nothing matters when you are dead, and, you are dead when nothing matters."

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Amber Hurdle

"Let an illness, a duel, a runaway horse make us see death face to face, and how richly we should have enjoyed the life of pleasure, the travels in unknown lands, which are about to be snatched from us! And no sooner is the danger past than we resume once more the same dull life in which none of those delights existed for us."

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Amber Hurdle

"Should we put out the light? And then put out the light. But once put out thy light, I cannot give it vital breath again. It needs must wither."

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Amber Hurdle

"But I couldn't absorb the idea that death could actually walk by my side, with a human face and a heart that was poisoned with hatred."

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Amber Hurdle

"Instead, he would make death his final project, the center point of his days. Since everyone was going to die, he could be of great value, right? He could be research. A human textbook. Study me in my slow and patient demise. Watch what happens to me. Learn with me."

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Amber Hurdle

"If you really want to stay the same age you are now forever and ever, she'd be thinking, try jumping off the roof: death's a sure-fire method for stopping time."

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"Another one of your quippy japes?"
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