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title: "2 Death Showed Quotes by 2 authors"
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> [Again, somehow, one saw life, a pure bead. I lifted the pencil again, useless though I knew it to be. But even as I did so, the unmistakable tokens of death showed themselves. The body relaxed, and instantly grew stiff.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/again-somehow-one-saw-life-a-pure-bead-i-lifted-the-pencil-again/)

[Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/)

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> [Death showed up in my life very early on, so I'm aware of it. If you look at most of the things I write there's a sort of contemplation of mortality - although 'True Blood' doesn't fall into that. Even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-ball/death-showed-up-in-my-life-very-early-on-so-i-m-aware-of-it-if-you/)

[Alan Ball](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-ball/)

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