“When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation." [As attributed by Alastair Reid in Neruda… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Plastic surgery for massive weight loss patients is very challenging under normal circumstances when you're a trained, board-certified plastic surgeon. When you're… — Terry Dubrow Copy Share Image
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I dream of flight, not to be as the angels are, but to rise above the smallness of it all. The smallnesss… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
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Shura, I’m yours. You may not like it today, you may not want it tonight, you may wish for it all to… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
The knowledge that seeking the favor of another Means the murder of self. This is the resolution, the end of all progress.… — Lamb Of God Copy Share Image
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Why are the people starving?- Because their grain is being eaten up by the taxes That's why they're starving Why are people… — Laozi Copy Share Image
I personally have always voted for the death penalty because I believe that people who go out prepared to take the lives… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
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“When he was alone, José Arcadio Buendía consoled himself with the dream of the infinite rooms. He dreamed that he was getting… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
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If you live in this world with kindness, if you don't add to other people's burdens, but if you try to serve… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed;… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
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Up to 90% of the total decline in the death rate of children between 1860-1965 because of whooping cough, scarlet fever, diphtheria,… — Archie Kalokerinos Copy Share Image
Before thou callest a man hero or genius, investigate whether his exertion has features of indelibility; for all that is celestial, all… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
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We pray Thee, O Christ, to keep us under the spell of immortality. My we never again think and act as if… — Peter Marshall Copy Share Image
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![“When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation." [As attributed by Alastair Reid in Neruda and Borges , The New Yorker, June 24, 1996; as well as in The Talk of the Town , The New Yorker, July 7, 1986]” quote by Jorge Luis Borges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/85a/jorge-luis-borges-275_books_when-writers-die-they-become-books-which_1235779.jpg)
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