"Christmas is the day that holds all time together."
-Alexander Smith
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"Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.“
-Alexander Smith
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"The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman."
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"Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition."
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"Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life."
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"How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening."
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"What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy."
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"So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb."
-Alastair Campbell
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"I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted."
-Fiona Shaw
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"Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within the definition of work, and blissfully ignorant of the reality of death."
-John Thorn
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