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" Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead. "

Friedrich Durrenmatt

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" A useless life is an early death. "

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" Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death. "

" If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy. "

" When you look at death, it makes you understand the importance of the moment when you have life and death in front of you, and you witness seeing someone deteriorating in front of you - it's an overwhelming experience. If you don't learn from that, I don't know what else you're gonna learn. "

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" They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person. "

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" If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear. "

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" In western culture, we have ignored death. We're running the other way - everything is about life and youth. So, there's something resonant about walking around with our own death masks. Zombies are the visible embodiment of death staring at us with our own faces. "

" We die only once, and for such a long time. "

" If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master. "

" I've been accused many times of not talking very much, but I guess I don't believe in talking things to death. You can talk too much on most anything and it stops being productive. There is a time for action. Eventually you have to pull the trigger. "

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" The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour. "

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" One must keep working continuously; otherwise, one thinks of death. "

" The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. "

" Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death. "

" The part that always shocked me was the inter-community violence among the chimps: the patrols and the vicious attacks on strangers that lead to death. It's an unfortunate parallel to human behavior - they have a dark side just as we do. We have less excuse, because we can deliberate, so I believe only we are capable of true calculated evil. "

" The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. "

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" The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom. "

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" I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death. "

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" I feel monotony and death to be almost the same. "

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" Take care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death. "

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