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"The dead aren't scary. They are just sad."
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"We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long."
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"Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men.Put out the light, and then put out the light:If I quench thee, thou flaming minister,I can again thy former light restore,Should I repent me: but once put out thy light,Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature,I know not where is that Promethean heatThat can thy light relume."
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"It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations."
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Personal Development
"Nothing in his life became him like leaving it."
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Personal Development
"Susan stared at him.The blue glow in Death's eyes gradually faded, and as the light died it sucked at her gaze so that it was dragged into the eye sockets and into the darkness beyond, which went on and on, for ever. There was no word for it. Even eternity was a human idea. Giving it a name gave it a length; admittedly, a very long one. But this darkness was what was left when eternity had given up. It was where Death lived. Alone."
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Personal Development
"Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it?"
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Personal Development
"Nico didn't like to be touched, but somehow this brief contact with his father felt reassuring " the same way the Chapel of Bones was reassuring. Like death, his father's presence was cold and often callous, but it was real " brutally honest, inescapably dependable."
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Personal Development
"For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium."
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"It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death."
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"At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past."
Men
"A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods."
Truth
"Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature."
Nature
"Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence."
Happiness
"An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it."
Happiness
"Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves."
Fashion
"Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?"
Shadow
"They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors."
Nothing
"It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom."
Wisdom
"Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness."
Happiness
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