"In practice it is death that works soseductively behind the image of its brother, sleep."

Death, Sleep, Seduction, Image

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"In practice it is death that works soseductively behind the image of its brother, sleep."

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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."

Sun Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

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"She cannot possibly be dead, people do not just die."

John Green, American Author

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"Do not forever with thy vailed lidsSeek for thy noble father in the dust.Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die,Passing though nature to eternity."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it."

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, American Psychologist

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"This world's a city full of straying streets, and death's the market-place where each one meets."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"She'll die.' 'Aye. That's a consequence of being alive."

Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer

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"It is not death, it is dying that alarms me."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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"Why when people are on their deathbed, they finally come to terms with life?"

Anthony Liccione, American Author

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"The dreadful dead of dark midnight."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"Who art thou then, O my soul!" (and here [Zarathustra] became frightened, for a sunbeam shot down from heaven upon his face.""O heaven above me," said he sighing, and sat upright, "thou gazest at me? Thou hearkenest unto my strange soul?When wilt thou drink this drop of dew that fell down upon all earthly things-when wilt thou drink this strange soul--When, thou well of eternity! thou joyous, awful, noontide abyss! when wilt thou drink my soul back into thee?"

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"It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men."

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"Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect."

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"Man is something that shall be overcome.Man is a rope,tied between beast and overman - a rope over an abyss.What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end."

Philosophy

"That which does not kill me makes me stronger."

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"The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd."

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"There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty."

Ethics

"An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris."

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"Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts."

Mind

"Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless."

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