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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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"Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality."

"We cannot conceive death as anything else than the afterlife because we cannot comprehend death unless we live."

"It was octarine, the colour of magic. It was alive and glowing and vibrant and it was the undisputed pigment of the imagination, because wherever it appeared it was a sign that mere matter was a servant of the powers of the magical mind. It was enchantment itself.But Rincewind always thought it looked a sort of greenish-purple."

"The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired."

"Death has a life which kills everybody's life."
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"What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading."


"I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience."


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


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


"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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