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"All men must die. We are but death's instruments, not death himself."
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"No one is absolutely free from religion and philosophy, for the life we live is always under the influence of religion and philosophy!"

"You are rebirth, therefore you have one foot in life and the other in death."

"He was a "how" thinker not an "if" thinker."

"Perhaps one never seems so much at one's ease as when one has to play a part."

"Viva fui in silvis sum dura occisa securi dum vixi tacui mortua dulce cano is inscribed on the fingerboard of a 16th-century viola da gamba made by Kaspar Tieffenbrucker. It translates, "I was alive in the woods; I was cut down by the cruel axe. While I lived I was silent; In death I sweetly sing."

"When you think about how time is passing, think about how you can use what is passing with time. You can't stop time but you can use or misuse what is passing with time."

"I'm going to kill myself. I should go to Paris and jump off the Eiffel Tower. I'll be dead. you know, in fact, if I get the Concorde, I could be dead three hours earlier, which would be perfect. Or wait a minute. It -- with the time change, I could be alive for six hours in New York but dead three hours in Paris. I could get things done, and I could also be dead."
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"A shy smile, strong arms, clever fingers, and two sure swords. What more could any woman want?"

"No singer would ever make a song about that battle. No maester would ever write down an account for one of the Reader's beloved books. No banners flew, no warhorns moaned, no great lord called his men about him to hear his final ringing words. They fought in the predawn gloom, shadow against shadow, stumbling over roots and rocks, with mud and rotting leaves beneath their feet."

"On armageddon day,' Sandy said, 'both armies will think they fight for good. And both of them will be wrong."

"You wear your honor like a suit of armor... You think it keeps you safe, but all it does is weigh you down and make it hard for you to move."

"I sailed up to the cold stars but they were cold no longer, and I grew bigger and bigger until I was the stars and they were me, and I was Union, and for a single solitary glittering instant I was the universe."
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