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" One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone. "

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" I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. "

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" Looking good and feeling like death is a difficult combination for people to understand. "

" When I arrived in France aged 20, I marched against the death penalty, which was an unpopular thing to protest against at the time. "

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" We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead. "

" As one whose husband and mother-in-law have died the victims of murder and assassination, I stand firmly and unequivocally opposed to the death penalty for those convicted of capital offenses... An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed of retaliation. "

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" It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death. "

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

" I am not the born; how can there be either birth or death for me? "

" If nothing else, there's comfort in recognising that no matter how much we fail and sin, death will limit our suffering. "

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" Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences. "

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" In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same. "

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" The very first thing you learn if you're a gentleman is that you never compare one woman to another. That's the way of all death. "

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" The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated. "