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Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ The Idiot
But here I should imagine the most terrible part of the whole punishment is, not the bodily pain at all-but the certain knowledge that in an hour, then in ten minutes, then in half a minute, then now-this very instant-your soul must quit your body and that you will no longer be a man-and that this is certain, certain!
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Francesca Lia Block _ Wasteland
I always wondered what it must be like to lose a twin-if somehow Mary felt it like it was happening to her. If she felt physical pain.
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Juliet Marillier _ Blade of Fortriu
Death, of course, should not be feared, but awaited with certain wonder. To die was to step across a threshold into a new world, unknown, unimaginable.
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Raymond E. Feist _ Honored Enemy
It was something he had never quite understood about himself. He had seen thousands of men die in nearly ten years of war and could look on it at times with a near-total detachment, but an animal suffering - be it a horse or needra injured in battle, or the stag now dying - moved him deeply.
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Ursula K. Le Guin _ A Wizard of Earthsea
In the latter months of his own long sickness the Master Herbal had taught him much of the healer's lore, and the first lesson and the last of all that lore was this: Heal the wound and cure the illness, but let the dying spirit go."
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Michael Chabon _ Telegraph Avenue
You never would get through to the end of being a father, no matter where you stored your mind or how many steps in the series you followed. Not even if you died. Alive or dead a thousand miles distant, you were always going to be on the hook for work that was neither a procedure nor a series of steps but, rather, something that demanded your full, constant attention without necessarily calling you to do, perform, or say anything at all.
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Chuck Palahniuk _ Damned
Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.
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Mitch Albom _ For One More Day
I love you every day. And now I will miss you every day.
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Isabel Allende _ The House of the Spirits
Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change
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Robert Hellenga _ The Sixteen Pleasures
Death was a lens that would reveal things as they really were: what was important would assume its true importance; what was unimportant would recede into the shadows.
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Sogyal Rinpoche _ The Tibetan Book of Living and
Death is a vast mystery, but there are two things we can layabout it: It is absolutely certain that we will die, and it is uncertain when or how we will die. The only surety we have, then, is this uncertainty about the hour of our death, which we seize on as the excuse to postpone facing death directly. We are like children who cover their eyes in a game of hide-and-seek and think that no one can see them.
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Raymond Chandler _ The Long Goodbye
The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful die young, but that they grow old and mean. It will not happen to me.
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