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"After sixty years the stern sentence of the burial service seems to have a meaning that one did not notice in former years. There begins to be something personal about it."
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"Your life on earth is but for a few days and before you know it, you are no more."
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"An expensive coffin does not decrease the deceased's chances of going to hell."
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"Over the lives borne from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness."
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"Sometimes things happen in our lives that wake us up to the truth, about how short life is. It's then we wonder why we spent so much wasted time looking too far into the future."
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"The worker picked up Pakhom's spade, dug a grave, and buried him - six feet from head to heel, exactly the amount of land a man needs."
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"It was another country. It was a country for the young, a country where you died before you got old."
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"The suicide! What would he have done if death did not exist?"
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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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"If this is death, if we are dead or dying or even if we are living and just going to die, then what do we have to fear? What are we worried about? I think the knowledge of death is freeing. That pressure we feel, the weight of life and its impending conclusion, is imaginary. And the fact that we're all in this together is unifying: there's solidarity in mortality."
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"The very possibility of death focuses the mind wonderfully."
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"Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness."
Happiness
"An older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier years."
Writing
"I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica as now used could be sunk to the bottom of the sea it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes."
Society
"The AmenT of Nature is always a flower."
Nature
"Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them."
People
"A day's impact is better than a month of dead pull."
Success
"But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold."
Friendship
"Life is an end in itself and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it."
Life
"When in doubt, do it."
Doubt
"Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum."
Life
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