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"Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all."
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"As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death."
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"We cannot conceive death as anything else than the afterlife because we cannot comprehend death unless we live."
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"The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired."
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"Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy."
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"Death has a life which kills everybody's life."
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"Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?"
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"Death is a fearful thing."
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"Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once."
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"Gracious dying is a huge, macabre and expensive joke on the American public."
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"She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position, it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship."
Companionship

"I'd far rather leave a thought behind me than a child. Other people can have children."
Legacy

"We move between two darknesses."
Transition

"Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind."
Civilization

"What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote."
Literature

"The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot."
Grief

"In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious and draws up something which is normally beyond his reach. He mixes this thing with his normal experiences and out of the mixture he makes a work of art."
Artistry

"Then she lay on her back and gazed at the cloudless sky. Mr. Beebe, whose opinion of her rose daily, whispered to his niece that that was the proper way to behave if any little thing went wrong."
Behavior

"Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something."
Art

"History develops, art stands still."
Art
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