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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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The past cannot be redeamed. What has been and what might have been both bring us to what is. To know grief, we must be in the river of time, because ...more

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Money and beauty are defenses against the sorrows of this world but neither can undo the past. Only time will conquer time. The way forward is the onl...more

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Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing.

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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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The dead are merely the countrymen of my future.

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Nothing before its time, son. Everything in its own time, to its own schedule.

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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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Once, there were no predators, no prey. Only harmony. There were no quakes, no storms, everything in balance. In the beginning, time was all at once a...more