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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
Enjoy Life
Enjoy
Death
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" The death industry markets caskets and embalming under the rubric of helping bodies look 'natural,' but our current death customs are as natural as training majestic creatures like bears and elephants to dance in cute little outfits, or erecting replicas of the Eiffel Tower and Venetian canals in the middle of the harsh American desert. "
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" Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live. "
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" The slugs are ascending this steep city staircase that leads up to a huge Catholic church, essentially signifying their slow crawl towards death. The work reminds us of religion, mortality, natural decay, and the slow suffocation of commercialized societies. "
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" Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death. "
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" I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived. "
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" It is a little bit surreal to know that you are in your own little spaceship, and a few inches from you is instant death. "
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" For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep. "
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" When men do not have healthy notions of the Divinity, false ideas supplant them, just as in bad times one uses counterfeit money when there is no good money. "
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" Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please. "
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" I found the experience of falling in love or being in love was a death: a death of everything. You kind of watch yourself die in a wonderful way, and you experience for the briefest moment - if you see yourself for a moment through their eyes - everything you believed about yourself gone. In a death-and-rebirth sense. "
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" What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy. "
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" Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath. "
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" He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad. "
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" Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death. "
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" Propaganda must appeal to mankind's better judgment and to the necessary belief in a better future. For this belief, the valley of the shadow of death is but a war station on the road to the blessed summit. "
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" 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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" We are rarely proud when we are alone. "
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" Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable. "
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" Those who learned to know death, rather than to fear and fight it, become our teachers about life. "
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" Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all. "
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" Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence. "
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" I never had a conscious fear of death, but I did have a conscious fear of sickness. By the time I completed medical school, that fear was gone. "
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" The death penalty issue is obviously a divisive one. But whether one is for or against, you can not deny the basic illogic - if we know the system is flawed, if we know there are innocent people on Death Row, then until the system is reformed, should we not abandon the death penalty to protect those who are innocent? "
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" I'm sick to death of people saying we've made 11 albums that sounds exactly the same, Infact, we've made 12 albums that sound exactly the same. "
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" Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death. "
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" All the criticism and all of the praise, it doesn't - it's not worth the salt that goes on my bread, because TV is fickle. You can be loved one day and hated the next day. One day, you're getting an award. And the next day, you're getting a death threat. "
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