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Anne Sexton

"Death's in the good-bye."

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"Death's in the good-bye."

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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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"Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?"

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