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Thus that which is the most awful of evils, death, is nothing to us, since when we exist there is no death, and when there is death we do not exist


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R.C. SPROUL Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- ...
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WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Absence and death are the same--only that in death there is no suffering.
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J.K. ROWLING It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.
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ALBUS DUMBLEDORE I need no further proof that God does not exist than the death of a child.
CARL WHITE There is no station that does not stop the vain illusions of life which awaits its death.
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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS When I become death, death is the seed from which I grow.
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SOCRATES When death overtakes us; all that we have is left to others; all that we are we take with us.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Science has nothing to do with any dogma. Science ceases to exist when there is a dogma.
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TULLIAN TCHIVIDJIAN Death is the only evidence of life. If there were no death, there would have been only an existence.
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MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Hiding in all the thorns, there is a yellow rose.
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LOUIS CATALDIE There is no death, only a change of worlds.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB There is no death, only a change of worlds.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA Death makes us afraid to do bad, because we have no idea where we would be after death.
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