"If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction."
-Jean de la Bruyere
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"Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not conscious of his birth, he suffers at his death and he forgets to live.“
-Jean de la Bruyere
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"Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness."
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"There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience."
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"Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us."
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"We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all."
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"The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love."
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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."
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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."
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"It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death."
-Thomas Mann
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