"Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it."

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"Vulgar and common persons, as they carry nothing out of this world, so they leave nothing in it: they receive no eminency in their birth, they acquire none in their life, they have none when they die, they leave none at their death."

John Pearson, British Theologian

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"What he has done for women is final: he gave to their service the best powers of his mind and the best years of his life. His death consecrates the gift: it can never lessen its value."

Millicent Fawcett, British Activist

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W. H. Auden, English Poet

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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, American Psychologist

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"A few cold words on yonder stone, A corpse as cold as they can be - Vain words, and mouldering dust, alone - Can this be all that's left of thee? O, no! thy spirit lingers still Where'er thy sunny smile was seen: There's less of darkness, less of chill On earth, than if thou hadst not been.Thou breathest in my bosom yet, And dwellest in my beating heart; And, while I cannot quite forget, Thou, darling, canst not quite depart."

Anne Bronte, British Novelist

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"Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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Robert Bolt, British Playwright

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"When death speaks to me, it speaks only of the beauty of life."

Marty Rubin, American Author

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"Death is softer by far than tyranny."

"Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it."

"Vulgar and common persons, as they carry nothing out of this world, so they leave nothing in it: they receive no eminency in their birth, they acquire none in their life, they have none when they die, they leave none at their death."

"What he has done for women is final: he gave to their service the best powers of his mind and the best years of his life. His death consecrates the gift: it can never lessen its value."

"Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic."

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"Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it."