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You ask for a practical direction to teach you to die well. Detach your souls from everything that you love, separate from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes I take the watch, or I take the shoes, but usually the souvenir is to take the life you had with… — Jean Reno Copy Share Image
Topography is one of my chief themes in my poetry, about the country, the suburbs and the seaside. Then there comes love...… — John Betjeman Copy Share Image
I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
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If I hadn't learned my lesson, I would have wished we could stay there forever. But I knew better now. We'd seen… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
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I wondered if all of us churchgoers were just exhausted by grief. For the dying priest and us, I thought, "God" always… — Virginia Heffernan Copy Share Image
In such a regime, I say, you died a good death if your life had inspired someone to come forward and shoot… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
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A 20-year-old is never going to give death a second thought, whereas someone in their late 50s is going to think about… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death." "We must be willing to let go of… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
ʺWho′s a spirit user?ʺ said Robert. ʺFormer spirit user,ʺ said Victor, ʺShe became a Strigoi to get away from it.ʺ ʺYes .… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Korean feminism is on the brink of death. Korea has a less clear boundary between popular literature and serious literature than in… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
I have grown weary of literature: silence alone comforts me. If I continue to write, it’s because I have nothing more to… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
“There is something in obstinacy which differs from every other passion; whenever it fails it never recovers, but either breaks like iron… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Without death there is little innovation. Extinction - death of a species - is part and parcel of evolutionary change. In the… — Richard Fortey Copy Share Image
Sometimes, I get afraid it has defined me, that sense of grief, loss and illness. But actually, it is about allowing myself… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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[in the true mad north] of introspection, where 'falcons of the inner eye' dive and die, glimpsing in their dying fall, all… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
“I am not a terrorist. The death of the innocent is not something I take pleasure in—unlike you people. But hard choices… — Stephen England Copy Share Image
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“The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that, worldwide over the past three decades, 150,000 people a year have died as a result… — Linda Marsa Copy Share Image
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“These Cro-Magnon people were identical to us: they had the same physique, the same brain, the same looks. And, unlike all previous… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
What do people fear most about death? I asked the reb. "Fear?" he thought for a moment. 'Well, for one thing, what… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
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As far as we know, we are the only species on the planet who have been given the gift-or curse, perhaps-of awareness… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
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