"All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it."
-Samuel Butler
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"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing."
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"Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children."
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"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."
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"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."
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"People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced."
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"To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure."
-J. K. Rowling
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"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings."
-Anais Nin
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"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."
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"Death ends a life, not a relationship."
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"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death."
-Robert Fulghum
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"It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death."
-Thomas Mann
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