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"Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality."

"We cannot conceive death as anything else than the afterlife because we cannot comprehend death unless we live."

"It was octarine, the colour of magic. It was alive and glowing and vibrant and it was the undisputed pigment of the imagination, because wherever it appeared it was a sign that mere matter was a servant of the powers of the magical mind. It was enchantment itself.But Rincewind always thought it looked a sort of greenish-purple."

"The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired."

"Death has a life which kills everybody's life."
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"Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage."

"It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle."

"You can't be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he'll take hold of and spend the rest of his life remembering you by."

"Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too."

"The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you."

"In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints."

"Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death."
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