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"Some leave our life with tears, others with an insane frigidity; Mrs. Wilcox had taken the middle course, which only rarer natures can pursue. She had kept proportion. She had told a little of her grim secret to her friends, but not too much; she had shut up her heart--almost, but not entirely. It is thus, if there is any rule, that we ought to die--neither as victim nor as fanatic, but as the seafarer who can greet with an equal eye the deep that he is entering, and the shore that he must leave."
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"Many want to live long, and ignore pangs of eternity."
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"Life is but a breath. The end of life is the last breath of a man."
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"The fact that you have just buried your parent or parents and/or sibling or siblings does not make you less likely to die today."
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"Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come."
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"When the heart accepts death first, words you can trust are feelings you can take."
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"Do not forget you will never live forever."
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"Silver's sweet and gold's our mother, but once you're dead they're worth less than that last shit you take as you lie dying."
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"I think Bonzo died. I dreamed about it last night. I remembered the way he looked after I jammed his face with my head. I think I must have pushed his nose back into his brain. The blood was coming out of his eyes. I think he was dead right then."
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"The one with karma is known as mortal (jiva) and the one without karma is known as Soul (Self, immortal)."
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"Let your only graduation be in the grave."
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"Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna."
Beauty
"A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself."
Information
"Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another."
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"One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves."
Family
"To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way."
Man
"I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life."
Life
"We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship."
Freedom
"No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour."
Man
"The issues Miss Quested had raised were so much more important than she was herself that people inevitably forgot her."
Society
"History develops, art stands still."
Art
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