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Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the liv...more

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I am sustained by the certainty that life has meaning. As does death.

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...because wherever else the future leads, it leads ultimately to death, the end that is present in my beginning and in yours.

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When you have dogs, you witness their uncomplaining acceptance of suffering, their bright desire to make the most of life in spite of the limitations ...more

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More likely, they would just cease to exist.""That's death.""No, it's different. Death leaves a corps.

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Being alone can be good. It's easy to find peace alone. But sometimes, being alone is a king of death.

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The greatest danger, of course, was to believe that I was equal to them, because assurance can morph into arrogance that Death loves to prove unfounde...more

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How obvious can it be? ... The purpose of makeup is to defy the degradations of time, and time is just a synonym for death.

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The dead are merely the countrymen of my future.

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Sometimes it seems that to exit this world, they must go through my heart, leaving me scarred and sore.

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Evil never dies. It just changes faces.

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We are all the walking wounded in a world that is a war zone. Everything we love will be taken from us, everything, last of all life itself. Yet every...more

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In all our lives, however, there are many days when we die a little, when we are wounded by loss or failure, or by fear, or by seeing the suffering of...more

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All death matters.""Only to the living.

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From all these friends, I could not escape learning some of the statistics that I preferred not to know. Forty-one people at the mall had been wounded...more