"Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free."

Death, Faithfulness, Past, Words

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"Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free."

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"Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

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"Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death."

Sun Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

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"I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent."

Buddha, Indian Leader

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"Death has a life which kills everybody's life."

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

Death, Life, Cycle, Reality

"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

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"If we really believe what we say we believe- if we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a "wandering to find home", why should we not look forward to the arrival. There are, aren't there, only three things we can do about death: to desire it, to fear it, or to ignore it. The third alternative, which is the one the modern world calls "healthy" is surely the most uneasy and precarious of all."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Death, Fear, Acceptance, Life

"Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, 'You seem to be feeling better this morning,' and Isben looked at her and said, 'On the contrary,' and then he died."

John Green, American Author

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"Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life."

bell hooks, American Critic

Death, Life, Time

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

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt."

"Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death."

"I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion."

"To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent."

"Death has a life which kills everybody's life."

"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval."

"Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, 'You seem to be feeling better this morning,' and Isben looked at her and said, 'On the contrary,' and then he died."

"Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life."

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

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"Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract."

"Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking."

"The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow."

"It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own."

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"Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter."

"The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future."

"If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier."