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Life is a memory, then it is nothing. All law is writ in a seed.

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If you pursue this road that you've embarked upon, you will eventually come to moral decisions that will take you completely by surprise

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The dead boy in his arms hung with his head back and those partly opened eyes beheld nothing at all out of that passing landscape of street or wall or...more

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You know we talked about where people go when they die. I just believe you go someplace and I seen her layin there and I thought maybe she wouldn't go...more

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In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will.

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A man is always right to pursue the thing he loves.No matter even if it kills him?I think so. Yes. No matter what.

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Lastly he looked at the face so caved and drawn among the folds of funeral cloth, the yellowed moustache, the eyelids paper thin. That was not sleepin...more

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In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will. The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the d...more

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The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.

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Now the son whose father's existance in this world is historical and speculative even before the son has entered it in a bad way. All his life he carr...more

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He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.

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It was an old hunter in camp and the hunter shared tobacco with him and told him of the buffalo and the stands he'd made against them, laid up in a sa...more

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You can stay here with your papa and die or you can go with me.... You'll be all right.

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It was the nature of his profession that his experience with death should be greater than for most and he said that while it was true that time heals ...more

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Every day is a lie, he said. But you are dying. That is not a lie.