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One who rushes madly after inordinate desire, runs the risk of encountering destruction and death.
One who rushes madly after inordinate desire, runs the risk of encountering destruction and death.
It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice; there are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, read more
It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice; there are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.
I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
If you don't know how to live, why wonder about death?.
If you don't know how to live, why wonder about death?.
There is a dignity in dying that doctors should not dare to deny.
There is a dignity in dying that doctors should not dare to deny.
I do not know beneath what sky nor on what seas shall be thy fate; I only know it shall read more
I do not know beneath what sky nor on what seas shall be thy fate; I only know it shall be high, I only know it shall be great.
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that read more
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear,
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.
I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.
I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.
To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or read more
To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or guess at anything but that world is not merely hell but the only possible damnation: the act of a man damning himself. It may be -- I hope it is -- redemption to guess and perhaps perceive that the universe, the hell which we see for all its beauty, vastness, majesty, is only part of a whole which is quite unimaginable.
