"It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom."
-Maurice Maeterlinck
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"All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.“
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"Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance."
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"At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past."
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"When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough."
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"Happiness is rarely absent it is we that know not of its presence."
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"When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the event: Humor diverts our attention and lifts our sagging spirits."
-Allen Klein
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"I start thinking about life after death. I've got to quit thinking about it because it's very deep. Very deep. Sometimes you start thinking about it, and you don't feel like you want to be alive, so I don't like to get all quiet."
-David Ortiz
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"What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy."
-Mario Puzo
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"So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb."
-Alastair Campbell
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"I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted."
-Fiona Shaw
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"Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within the definition of work, and blissfully ignorant of the reality of death."
-John Thorn
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