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"Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic."
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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."
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"I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion."
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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."
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"Death has a life which kills everybody's life."
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"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval."
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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."
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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."
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"The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired."
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"Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?"
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"In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not."
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"If you want romance, fuck a journalist."
Journalism
"All the rest is silenceOn the other side of the wall;And the silence ripeness,And the ripeness all."
Silence
"Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods."
Relationship
"You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people."
People
"May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that "faith" is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?"
Faith
"The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews."
History
"A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become."
Art
"When we do evil We and our victims Are equally bewildered."
Empathy
"Any marriage happy or unhappy is infinitely more interesting and significant than any romance however passionate."
Marriage
"Every poet has his dream reader: mine keeps a look out for curious prosodic fauna like bacchics and choriambs."
Poetry
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