"That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not."
-Miguel de Cervantes
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"Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.“
-Miguel de Cervantes
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"Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other."
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"There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war."
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"Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water."
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"Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water."
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"Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water."
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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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