A civilization that denies death ends by denying life.

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Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.

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They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.

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Things are simple when you're going to die.

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The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends.

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Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem. ― Joseph Stalin

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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

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If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death. ― Morgan Freeman

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. ― Henry David Thoreau

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I let my head fall back, and I gazed into the Eternal Blue Sky. It was morning. Some of the sky was yellow, some the softest blue. One small cloud scuttled along. Strange how everything below can be such death and chaos and pain while above the sky is peace, sweet blue gentleness. I heard a shaman say once, the Ancestors want our souls to be like the blue sky. ― Shannon Hale, Book of a Thousand Days

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