"I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence."

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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

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"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

Death, Irony, Life, Humor

"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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"When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence."

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