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"To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death."
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"The dead aren't scary. They are just sad."
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"We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long."
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"Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men.Put out the light, and then put out the light:If I quench thee, thou flaming minister,I can again thy former light restore,Should I repent me: but once put out thy light,Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature,I know not where is that Promethean heatThat can thy light relume."
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"It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations."
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"Nothing in his life became him like leaving it."
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"Susan stared at him.The blue glow in Death's eyes gradually faded, and as the light died it sucked at her gaze so that it was dragged into the eye sockets and into the darkness beyond, which went on and on, for ever. There was no word for it. Even eternity was a human idea. Giving it a name gave it a length; admittedly, a very long one. But this darkness was what was left when eternity had given up. It was where Death lived. Alone."
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"Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it?"
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"Nico didn't like to be touched, but somehow this brief contact with his father felt reassuring " the same way the Chapel of Bones was reassuring. Like death, his father's presence was cold and often callous, but it was real " brutally honest, inescapably dependable."
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"For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium."
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"It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death."
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"What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born."
Neglect
"Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied."
Mistake
"To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth."
Work
"I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work."
Work
"One faces the future with one's past."
Time
"Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman."
Home
"The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it."
Life
"Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame."
Heart
"Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession."
Man
"Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne."
Wisdom
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