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To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.
To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.
If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted read more
If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust, and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless misery. He would break down, at last, as every good fortune, as every dynasty, as every civilization does. In place of this we have death.
It is better to spend your time at funerals than at festivals. For you are going to die, and you read more
It is better to spend your time at funerals than at festivals. For you are going to die, and you should think about it while there is still time.
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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone read more
When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!.
Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. read more
It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. Even the stain on the coffee cup seems not coffee but the physical manifestation of one's inner stain, the fatal blot that from the beginning had marked one for ultimate aloneness.
We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love.
We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love.
In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.
In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.
When he shall die Take him and cut him in little stars And he will make the face of heaven read more
When he shall die Take him and cut him in little stars And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.
