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My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered.
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inspirational
life-and-death
opening-lines
first-lines
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Alice Sebold |
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"I've never once thought about how I was going to die," she said. "I can't think about it. I don't even know how I'm going to live."
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life
life-and-death
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Haruki Murakami |
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Yet, he thought, if I can die saying, "Life is so beautiful," then nothing else is important. If i can believe in myself that much, nothing else matters.
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beauty
inspirational
life-and-death
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Mario Puzo |
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"Yet, he thought, if I can die saying, "Life is so beautiful," then nothing else is important. If i can believe in myself that much, nothing else matters."
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inspirational
life-and-death
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Mario Puzo |
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The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead.
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carpe-diem
dead
death
dream
dying
existing
life
life-and-death
living
reality
truths
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Arundhati Roy |
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His absence seemed a solid thing, a burden I must carry in addition to my grief... Yet I knew I would continue to live. Sometimes that knowledge seemed the worst part of my loss.
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grieve
life
life-and-death
loss
nature-of-things
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Robin Hobb |
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"When I was young" ... "Before I was twenty, I mean, I used to think that life was a thing that kept gaining impetus, it would get richer and deeper each year. You kept learning more, getting wiser, having more insight, going further into the truth" - she hesitated. Port laughed abruptly. - "And now you know it's not like that. Right? It's more like smoking a cigarette. The first few puffs it tasted wonderful, and you don't even think of its ever being used up. Then you begin taking it for granted. Suddenly you realize it's nearly burned down to the end. And then's when you're conscious of the bitter taste."
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life
life-and-death
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Paul Bowles |
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For men and women alike, this journey is a the trajectory between birth and death, a human life lived. No one escapes the adventure. We only work with it differently.
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inspiration
inspirational
inspirational-life
life-and-death
life-and-living
life-lessons
meditation-experience
mind-body-spirit
mind-control
mind-power
mindfulness
mindfulness-practice
quotes-i-love
quotes-on-life
quotes-that-make-sense
quotes-to-define-my-life
quotes-to-live-by
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Jon Kabat-Zinn |
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Fair... You'd be amazed how often I hear that word, Frank Zhang,and how meaningless it is. Is it fair your life will burn so short and bright? Was it fair when I guided your mother to the Underworld? No, not fair. And yet it was her time. There is no fairness in Death. If you free me, I will do my duty.
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life-and-death
thantos
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Rick Riordan |
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The so-called 'psychotically depressed' person who tries to kill herself doesn't do so out of quote 'hopelessness' or any abstract conviction that life's assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire's flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It's not desiring the fall; it's terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling 'Don't!' and 'Hang on!', can understand the jump. Not really. You'd have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.
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life
life-and-death
suicide
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David Foster Wallace |
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Yes; poor Bunbury is a dreadful invalid. Well, I must say, Algernon, that I think it is high time that Mr. Bunbury made up his mind whether he was going to live or to die. This shillyshallying with the question is absurd.
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humor
life-and-death
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Oscar Wilde |
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All those religions--they contradict each other on every point but every one of them is filled with ways to help people to be brave enough to laugh even though they know they are dying.
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contradictions
life-and-death
religions
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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I love that moment, when you stop struggling to stay awake and your eyelids shut sink down and you slip effortlessly into another realm that's beckoning to you.
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away
life-and-death
realm
sleep
struggling
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Rachel Klein |
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The worker picked up Pakhom's spade, dug a grave, and buried him - six feet from head to heel, exactly the amount of land a man needs.
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dying
greed
life
life-and-death
living
poverty
wealth
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Leo Tolstoy |
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What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What's so great about feeling and dreaming?
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feeling
life-and-death
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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in that cold autistic dark.
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life-and-death
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Cormac McCarthy |
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The song is an unvarnished love shout, an implorement tinged with...anger? Something like anger, but the anger of a philosoher, the anger of a pot. An anger directed at the transience of the world, at its heartbreaking beauty that collides constantly with our awareness of the fact that everything gets taken away, that we're being shown marvels but reminded always that they don't belong to us. They're sultans' treasures; we're lucky, we're expected to feel lucky to have been invited to see them at all.
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life
life-and-death
mortality
preciousness
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Michael Cunningham |
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There is no book and your fathers are dead in the ground.
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life-and-death
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Cormac McCarthy |
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That's what it means to die, to not be able to stop looking at whatever's in front of you. Some darn thing placed directly there, with nothing you can do about it...
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life-and-death
living
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Philip K. Dick |
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In the grueling light that passed for day...
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life-and-death
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Cormac McCarthy |
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We live and we die and anything else is just delusion. it's just passive chick bullshit about feelings and sensitivity. Just made-up subjective emotional crap. There is no soul. There is no God. There's just decisions and disease and death.
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death
humor
life-and-death
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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But death is not easy, and life can win by simulating it.
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life
life-and-death
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Iris Murdoch |
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Then he asked me which one I thought was most likely to happen. I wish I knew. I really do. But I don't. You'd think that after living with these people for fifteen years I'd know a little something about them. But right now I feel like I don't know my parents at all. I guess when you get down to it, I've never really thought about them as people. They've always been my parents. Now I have to think about them as people with feelings. What a pain. The funny thing is, I bet they feel the same way.
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life-and-death
life-quotes
suicide-notes
understanding-oneself-and-others
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Michael Thomas Ford |
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[W]hat makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven.
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heaven-and-hell
hell
life
life-and-death
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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And just as music is the space between notes, just as the stars are beautiful because of the space between them, just as the sun strikes raindrops at a certain angle and throws a prism of color across the sky - so the space where I exist, and want to keep existing, and to be quite frank I hope I die in, is exactly this middle distance: where despair struck pure otherness and created something sublime.
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life
life-and-death
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Donna Tartt |
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"Once the game is over,' " he says, " 'the king and the pawn go back in the same box.' " "In life and death we are equal."
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game
italian-proverb
life-and-death
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Lisa Renee Jones |
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Ki ruhazta rad a felelosseget? Ki adott bolcsesseget, hogy tudd, kinek kell elnie, es kinek kell meghalnia, es milyen uton-modon? Ki vagy te, hogy tudd, mi jar Isten fejeben?
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judgement
life-and-death
ways-of-god
wisdom
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Dan Millman |
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"It is a great wonder How Almighty God in his magnificence Favors our race with rank and scope And the gift of wisdom; His sway is wide. Sometimes He allows the mind of a man Of distinguished birth to follow its bent, Grants him fulfillment and felicity on earth And forts to command in his own country. He permits him to lord it in many lands Until the man in his unthinkingness Forgets that it will ever end for him. He indulges his desires; illness and old age Mean nothing to him; his mind is untroubled By envy or malice or thought of enemies With their hate-honed swords. The whole world Conforms to his will, he is kept from the worst Until an element of overweening Enters him and takes hold While the soul's guard, its sentry, drowses, Grown too distracted. A killer stalks him, An archer who draws a deadly bow. And then the man is hit in the heart, The arrow flies beneath his defenses, The devious promptings of the demon start. His old possessions seem paltry to him now. He covets and resents; dishonors custom And bestows no gold; and because of good things That the Heavenly powers gave him in the past He ignores the shape of things to come. Then finally the end arrives When the body he was lent collapses and falls Prey to its death; ancestral possessions And the goods he hoarded and inherited by another Who lets them go with a liberal hand. "O flower of warriors, beware of that trap. Choose, dear Beowulf, the better part, Eternal rewards. Do not give way to pride. For a brief while your strength is in bloom But it fades quickly; and soon there will follow Illness or the sword to lay you low, Or a sudden fire or surge of water Or jabbing blade or javelin from the air Or repellent age. Your piercing eye
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life-and-death
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Seamus Heaney |
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Can life be counted upon to limit itself? No. It is the mindless striving of two to become infinity. Can death be counted upon to limit itself? Never. It is the equally mindless effort of zero to encompass infinity.
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anubis
infinity
life-and-death
zero-equals-two
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Roger Zelazny |
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When I look back all is flux, without beginning and flowing towards no end, or none that I shall experience, except as a final full stop. The items of flotsam that I choose to salvage from the general wreckage--and what is a life but a gradual shipwreck?--may take on an aspect of inevitability when I put them on display in their glass showcases, but they are random; representative, perhaps, perhaps compellingly so, but random nonetheless.
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life-and-death
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John Banville |
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gr chh gwnh mrdn r yd bgyry , chh gwnh zystn r nyz fr khwhy grft.
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life-and-death
life-lessons
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Mitch Albom |
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b2f4fc0
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Perhaps that is why we love life so much, Anjin-san. You see, we have to. Death is part of our air and see and earth.
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life-and-death
shogun
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James Clavell |