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I believe that the struggle against death, the unconditional and self-willed determination to live, is the mode of power behind the lives and activities of all outstanding men.
Steppenwolf
A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born but you can choose how you die.
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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one�s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
The Bell Jar
He who does not fear death cares naught for threats
Every moment of life is a step towards death
The grave is still the best shelter against the storms of destiny
Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health
Our life is made by the death of others
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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