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Mary Austin

"Death by starvation is slow."

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"Death by starvation is slow."

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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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"This world's a city full of straying streets, and death's the market-place where each one meets."

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"She'll die.' 'Aye. That's a consequence of being alive."

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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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"Funerals, I had decided, are for the living."

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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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Amber Hurdle

"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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"To underestimate one's thirst, to pass a given landmark to the right or left, to find a dry spring where one looked for running water - there is no help for any of these things."
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"Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise."
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"What women have to stand on squarely is not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, but the importance and validity of their seeing it in some other way."
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"People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker."
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"Nevertheless there are certain peaks, canons, and clear meadow spaces which are above all compassing of words, and have a certain fame as of the nobly great to whom we give no familiar names."
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"Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas."
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"For one thing there is the divinest, cleanest air to be breathed anywhere in God's world."
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"This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough."
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"Probably we never fully credit the interdependence of wild creatures, and their cognizance of the affairs of their own kind."
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"The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its own fashion."
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