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Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.
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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.
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Death's not one of those things that frighten the life out of me. Getting up on stage with the curtain going up frightens me more.
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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
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Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.
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Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.
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Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn't.
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Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular.
Source: How to Be Alone: Essays (2007) 87 -
Despite fearful rhetoric to the contrary, terrorism is not a transcendent threat. A terrorist attack cannot possibly destroy our country's way of life; it's only our reaction to that attack that can do that kind of damage.
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Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
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Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expedient of sending people to labour camps for life or cutting off their hands without a trial.
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Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
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Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life.
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Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
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Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
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Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.
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Do for this life as if you live forever, do for the afterlife as if you die tomorrow.
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Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words.
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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. So aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
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