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It is good to die before one has done anything deserving death.
It is good to die before one has done anything deserving death.
The cost of living is dying, everybody pays.
The cost of living is dying, everybody pays.
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. read more
It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. Even the stain on the coffee cup seems not coffee but the physical manifestation of one's inner stain, the fatal blot that from the beginning had marked one for ultimate aloneness.
Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
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Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
and things are not what they seem.
Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art; to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.
Three sparks--pride, envy, and avarice--have been kindled in all
hearts.
[It., Superbia, invidia ed avarizia sono
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Three sparks--pride, envy, and avarice--have been kindled in all
hearts.
[It., Superbia, invidia ed avarizia sono
Le tre faville che hanno i cori accesi.]
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.
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.
At least when you are dead you will know what silence truly sounds like.
At least when you are dead you will know what silence truly sounds like.
