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For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.

You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can’t answer slurs, but I’m here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn’t.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.

Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.