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E. M. Forster

"People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness."

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"People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness."

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"Do not forever with thy vailed lidsSeek for thy noble father in the dust.Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die,Passing though nature to eternity."

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"Death is the ultimate cessation of the individual Self."

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"DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH."

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"The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death."

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"That's part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence."

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"No one dies in the language of the Gnani (the Self-realized one) and every one dies in the language of the agnani (non-Self-realized person). The agnani (non-Self-realized person) mourns and grieves, and the Gnani simply 'Sees'."

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"People don't like to talk about death because it makes them sad."

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"We care about the dead. We try with our lives to honor theirs. That's how we make our lives meaningful, and how we make their lives meaningful, too."

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