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" And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no true echo in my heart. "

Mary Shelley

Happy

Death

Grief

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Saying

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" The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food. "

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Food

Misery

" When you start fooling around with drugs, you're hurting your creativity, you're hurting your health. Drugs are death, in one form or another. If they don't kill you, they kill your soul. And if your soul's dead, you've got nothing to offer, anyway. "

" Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death. "

" I am very emotional. It took me many years to recover from the death of my father. Even when I was playing cricket, I wasn't happy. I would just sit and cry. I was very young. He was too young; he shouldn't have gone. Cricket is all right. We all play sport. Good and bad days come. "

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Father

I Am

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" Probably the one Bible passage that is read by Jews and Roman Catholics, Protestants, Islam, more than any other chapter is Psalm 23. And in Psalm 23 there is a verse that says, 'Surely, yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.' "

" An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself. "

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King

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Great

Death

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" With the notion of marriage - an exclusive, emotional, binding 'til death do you part' tie - becoming more and more an exception to the rule given a rise in cohabitation and high rates of divorce, why should the federal government be telling adults who love one another that they cannot get married simply because they happen to be gay? "

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" The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death. "

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Charm

Fame

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