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

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Maybe magic and love, together, can achieve what magic alone cannot.

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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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No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disagreement, and frustration as is the relationship yo...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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When I woke up and the dark wasn't gone yet, and the dark seemed so big, then she sang soft and made the dark small again."That is the best of all thi...more

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All she wanted was love with respect, respect was so important to her, and I could give her that.

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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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If emotions were universal, then in one sense he was not alone, never had been alone, and never could be alone....No pain or happiness was unique. All...more

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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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What really holds their marriage together are mutual respect of an awesome depth, a shared sense of humor, faith that they were brought together by a ...more

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