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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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"Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt."
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"Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death."
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"I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion."
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"To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent."
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"Death has a life which kills everybody's life."
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"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval."
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"If we really believe what we say we believe- if we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a "wandering to find home", why should we not look forward to the arrival. There are, aren't there, only three things we can do about death: to desire it, to fear it, or to ignore it. The third alternative, which is the one the modern world calls "healthy" is surely the most uneasy and precarious of all."
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"Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, 'You seem to be feeling better this morning,' and Isben looked at her and said, 'On the contrary,' and then he died."
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"Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life."
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"The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired."
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"You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied."
Nature


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


"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."
Soul


"The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?"
Death


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


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


"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."
Being


"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."
Success


"I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am."
Education


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