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"The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?"
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"I'm in awe of people out there who deal with Alzheimer's, because they have to deal with death 10 times over, year after year."

"As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to."

"If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it."

"These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated as possessions to be economically exploited. At least we hope that such colonialism is on the way out."

"Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it."

"Death does not mark the end of a chapter in a man's life, but the end of a book of man, the beautiful conclusion to his yearnings."

"When I listen to music, I don't want to hear about flowers. I like death and destruction."
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"I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience."


"What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading."


"Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity."


"I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more."


"The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape."


"You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied."


"How sick one gets of being "good," how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness."


"Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul."


"One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience."
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