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Death

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“ Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave. ”
Pericles
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“Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.”
Aurelius Marcus
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“As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.”
Shaw Bernard
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“I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it. ”
Voltaire
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“To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches. ”
Baudelaire
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“Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.”
Schopenhauer Counsels and Maxims
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“Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.”
Cicero
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“Straight lines go too quickly to appreciate the pleasures of the journey. They rush straight to their target and then die in the very moment of their triumph without having thought, loved, suffered or enjoyed themselves”
Crevel Rene
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“He who has rejected his demons badgers us to death with his angels.”
Michaux Henri
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“As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.”
Lorca Federico
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“Desire is half of life; indifference is half of death.”
Gibran Khalil
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“Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it.”
Toulouse
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“Immortal spirit of antiquity,<br> Father of the true, beautiful and good,<br> Descend, appear, shed over us thy light<br> Upon this ground and under this sky ”
Palamas Kostis
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“Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one. ”
Nabokov
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“Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life. ”
Munch Edvard
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“We have in fact only two certainties in this world - that we are not everything and that we will die”
Bataille
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“Let no-one say the past is dead, the past is all about us and within.”
Noonuccal
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“It is the dignity with which one goes to his death that is remembered by all, What of life, it comes and goes. ”
Faiz Ahmad
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“We have only one recourse in the face of death: make art before it happens.”
Depestre Rene
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“The aims of life are the best defense against death.”
Levi Primo
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“We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine. ”
Galeano
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“Oh, privileged mortal you enjoy lifelong honor and perfect ease!”
Zamudio Adela
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“Glory to those with souls devoid of fear, Who for the people's cause did bravely die…”
Tabidze Galaktion