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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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"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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"Do I wither up and disappear, or do I make the best of my time left?.. He would not wither. He would not be ashamed of dying."
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"Tombstones covered the dale, the smooth marble surfaces bright. She had spent days here as a teenager, though not out of any awareness of mortality. Like every adolescent, she intended to live forever."
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"When we're all gone at last then there'll be nobody here but death and his days will be numbered too. He'll be out in the road there with nothing to do and nobody to do it to. He'll say: where did everybody go? And that's how it will be. What's wrong with that?"
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"Rest in Peace?' Why that phrase? That's the most ridiculous phrase I've ever heard! You die, and they say 'Rest in Peace!'. Why would one need to 'rest' when they're dead?! I spent thousands of years of world history resting. While Agamemnon was leading his ships to Troy, I was resting. While Ovid was seducing women at the chariot races, I was resting. While Jeanne d'Arc was hallucinating, I was resting. I wait until airplanes are scuttling across the sky to burst out onto the scene, and I'm only going to be here for a short while, so when I die, I certainly won't need to rest again! Not while more adventures of the same kind are going on."
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"Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the business of living?"
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"He brooded on how close destruction always was to all creatures, animals as well as humans, and he realized that there is nothing we can predict or know for certain in this world except death."
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"When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred."
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"The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character."
Character
"A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards."
Relationship
"Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty."
Love
"The fact is unalterable, that a fellow-mortal with whose nature you are acquainted solely through the brief entrances and exits of a few imaginative weeks called courtship, may, when seen in the continuity of married companionship, be disclosed as something better or worse than what you have preconceived, but will certainly not appear altogether the same."
Marriage
"Might could would-they are contemptible auxiliaries."
Ethics
"People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate."
People
"Selfish- a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice."
Morality
"Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return."
Love
"The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life."
Life
"For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them."
Philosophy
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