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To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.

I know death comes. I’ve seen too much death, young death.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

The stroke of death is as a lover’s pinch, which hurts and is desired.

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.