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"The Cottage Diner's homey lights glowed onto black asphalt which just sucked up the beams to spit out more shadows."
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"There is no conclusive evidence of life after death, but there is no evidence of any sort against it. Soon enough you will know, so why fret about it?"
"Among the tortures and devastations of life is this then-our friends are not able to finish their stories."
"After you die, a rare friend or family member may carry your memory throughout life. Most will forget you. As if you were never here."
"You could have died later on, you could have died after peace had been declared. But, in any case, you were going to die."
"Personally, I always wondered about authors and celebrities who loudly declared there was no God. It was usually when they were healthy and popular and being listened to by crowds. What happens, I wondered, in the quiet moments before death? By then, they have lost the stage, the world has moved on. If suddenly, in their last gasping moments, through fear, a vision, a late enlightenment, they change their minds about God, who would know?"
"One can not come back from life."
"Nothing matters when you are dead, and, you are dead when nothing matters."
"A man who has decided upon self-destruction is far removed from mundane affairs, and to sit down and write his will would be, at that moment, an act just as absurd as winding up one's watch, since together with the man, the whole world is destroyed; the last letter is instantly reduced to dust and, with it, all the postmen; and like smoke, vanishes the estate bequeathed to a nonexistent progeny."
"Let an illness, a duel, a runaway horse make us see death face to face, and how richly we should have enjoyed the life of pleasure, the travels in unknown lands, which are about to be snatched from us! And no sooner is the danger past than we resume once more the same dull life in which none of those delights existed for us."
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"As the sky faded to night, her anger dissipated - but not in a healing way, just dulled, like forged iron sizzling in a cold pail of water."
"Took long enough, she called out, not wanting to admit how the sight of him made her throat hitch, how the man was so gorgeous she lost her mind. 'I thought you drowned in the mirror from staring into your reflection too long."
"Flirt with the old ladies and you'll be fine, I muttered, shoving my stuff into the cubby. He hung his green hoodie on the hooks right beside me. 'Is that how you get by? 'Doesn't work on the old ladies for me, but the old men on the other hand? I paused and glanced at my nails. 'Yeah, doesn't work on them either."
"My dad had always said to not trust something unless it's taken a tumble in the dirt. He'd meant it for people, and for things. Shiny and new didn't exist for humankind any more."
"While the club - kid lifestyle might've once appealed to him, after he discovered even drugs wouldn't dull his sharpened reality, he went into each round cold."
"If you're supposed to work with someone, I'd recommend not getting all hot and bothered with them the night before. The word of the day was 'tense."
"Ignore the reek of feces in the air, the bloodstains on the ground, and you have yourself a glorious night."
"The last thing I remembered was joining the crew in a rendition of 'Take to the Sky, but the rest of the time blurred after I drank absinthe with the Captain."
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