"Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea."

Mortality, Death, Idea, Life, Learning

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"Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea."

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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."

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

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"Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come."

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"Most people do not realize that they are one car crash away from death."

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"More are men's ends marked than their lives before.The setting sun, the music at the close,As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last,Writ in remembrance more than things long past."

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"Everything diminishes and everything is destructible."

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"Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers."

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"He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear."

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"It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning."

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"Sooner or later it would happen: strength would change into consciousness."

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"The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia's life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal."

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"Do you know why you're here? Shall I tell you why we brought you here? To cure you.To make you sane."

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"Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion."

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"To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization."

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