I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.

William Faulkner

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - myth is more potent than history - dreams are more powerful than facts - hope always triumphs over experience - laughter is the cure for grief - love is stronger than death.

The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night.

Edna St Vincent Millay

All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.

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