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She didn’t want to die. She couldn’t imagine wanting to die…Death was for—for other people.

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In the midst of life, we are in death.

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Death was for-the other people.

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Besides a burial service is rather lovely. Makes you feel uplifted, the grief is real. It makes you feel awful but it does something to you. I mean, i...more

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Well, people are like that too. THey create a false door - to deceive. If they are conscious of weakness, of inefficiency, they make an imposing door ...more

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Those words of hers had meant nothing - you could not dismiss [however] a human being so easily.

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Sitting here, literally amongst the dead, reckoning up gains and losses, casting accounts, I have come to see gains that cannot be reckoned in terms o...more

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All Egypt is obsessed with death! And do you know why, Renisenb? Because we have eyes in our bodies, but none in our minds. We cannot conceive of a li...more

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But what really happens after you are dead - that is what I want to know?I cannot tell you Renisenb. You should ask a priest these questions.He would ...more

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I never gossip - but after all, a tongue is given one to speak with, and I'm not deaf mute.That you most certainly are not. A tongue, Henet, may somet...more

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Ladies tell their nurses things in a sudden burst of confidence, and then, afterwards, they feel uncomfortable about it and wish they hadn't! It's onl...more

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Somehow, the more I get older, and the more I see of people and sadness and illness and everything, the sorrier I get for everyone.

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Nature repeats herself more than one would imagine. The sea has infinitely more variety.

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And yet," said Poirot, "suppose an accident-""Ah, no, my friend-""From your point of view it would be regrettable, I agree. But nevertheless let us ju...more

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One always has hope for human nature