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The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and then to the curved ends of the universe, as light is said to do.

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

The valiant never taste of death but once.

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

And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish’d from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish’d from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment!

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

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

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.