"Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death."

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"Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death."

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"It's my life and my death."

Gary Gilmore, American Criminal

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"I've had death threats, if you can imagine."

Pat Boone, American Musician

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"These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated as possessions to be economically exploited. At least we hope that such colonialism is on the way out."

Emily Greene Balch, American Educator

Death, Hope, Possessions

"The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place."

Percy Bysshe Shelley, English Poet

Death, Beauty, Romance, Stillness

"The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death."

Voltaire, French Writer

Death, Life, Fear, Conscience

"Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up."

Wilson Mizner, American Dramatist

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"For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread."

Rebecca H. Davis, American Author

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"All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead."

Anna Akhmatova, Russian Poet

Death,

"Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, Who suffered death because she chose to turn."

Anna Akhmatova, Russian Poet

Death, Heart, Concern, Will

"Fyodor Pavlovitch was drunk when he heard of his wife's death, and the story is that he ran out into the street and began shouting with joy, raising his hands to Heaven: "Lord, now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace," but others say he wept without restraint like a little child, so much so that people were sorry for him, in spite of the repulsion he inspired. It is quite possible that both versions were true, that he rejoiced at his release, and at the same time wept for her who released him."

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist

Death, Grief, Emotion, Release

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"It's my life and my death."

"I've had death threats, if you can imagine."

"These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated as possessions to be economically exploited. At least we hope that such colonialism is on the way out."

"The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place."

"The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death."

"Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up."

"For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread."

"All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead."

"Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, Who suffered death because she chose to turn."

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"Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god."

"A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself."

"Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men."

"Good taste is as tiring as good company."

"If you want to have clean ideas, change them as often as your shirt."

"God invented concubinage, satan marriage."

"Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery."

"My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back."

"Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth."

"A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone."