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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.”
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“Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
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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.
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“The aims of life are the best defense against death.”
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“Death is no tragic. In 100 years, none of us will be concerned.”
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“Separation by death must finally be choked down,
but separation in life is a long anguish,”
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“The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.”
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“Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.
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“Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.”
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“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
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“We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. That’s why we like all the things that we assume have no limits and, therefore, no end. It’s a way of escaping thoughts about death. We like lists because we don’t want to die”
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“Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.”
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“Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.”
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“The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
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“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once. ”
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“Love of life is born of the awareness of death, of the dread of it.”
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“And, in the end, death is just a symptom that there was life.”
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“No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.”
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“Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
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“As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.”
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“Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.”
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“We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.
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““I've been very near death. And you can't imagine the wild elation of those moments- it's the sudden glimpse of the absurdity of life that brings it- when one meets death face to face."”
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“To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.”
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“If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.”
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“It is not death that a man should fear. He should fear never beginning to live.
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“After your death you will be what you were before your birth.”
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“For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
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