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" One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. "

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Giuseppe Garibaldi

" For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity. "

" 'Grace' is basically a death prayer. Not something of sorrow, but of just casting away any fear of death. No relief will come - you really just have to stew in your life until it's time to go. But sometimes, somebody else's faith in you can do wonders. "

" The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death. "

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" No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply. "

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Vladimir Nabokov

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