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"A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"You are whatever you shall leave behind when you leave life!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"Fair... You'd be amazed how often I hear that word, Frank Zhang,and how meaningless it is. Is it fair your life will burn so short and bright? Was it fair when I guided your mother to the Underworld? No, not fair. And yet it was her time. There is no fairness in Death. If you free me, I will do my duty."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

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"The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after death.""

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

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"A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the innumerable instances where one would have experienced pain."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"To be closed as a person, it's not bad if you know that when this two rules, playing by your rules doesn't mean that you won't end up in jail, security why?We both know that everyone dies... it really doesn't matter who is first... in the end all die!"

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

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"The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh."

Quality

"If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window."

Body

"No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found."

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"Do we mean love, when we say love?"

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"I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo."

Butterflies

"Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness."

Nothingness

"Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence."

Nothing

"I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning."

Life

"Words are all we have."

Word

"We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?"

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