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“On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.”— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.”— Henry David Thoreau
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“Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.”— Elbert Hubbard
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“The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.”— Albert Einstein
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“The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.”— Voltaire
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“No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.”— Steve Jobs
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“Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.”— George Carlin
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“My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play.”— Hugh Leonard
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“Death is not the worst that can happen to men.”— Plato
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“Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.”— Friedrich Nietzsche
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“I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.”— Stephen Hawking
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“The valiant never taste of death but once.”— William Shakespeare
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“Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.”— Francis Bacon
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“I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.”— Paulo Coelho
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“Death is a fearful thing.”— William Shakespeare
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“A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.”— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.”— Michel de Montaigne
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“Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.”— Marcus Aurelius
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“It is vain for the coward to flee death follows close behind it is only by defying it that the brave escape.”— Voltaire
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“Death is not extinguishing the light it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.”— Rabindranath Tagore
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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.”— Mark Twain
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“For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.”— Johnny Carson
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“In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.”— Anne Frank
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“'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.”— Lord Byron
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“One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.”— Jean-Paul Sartre