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Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the liv...more

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I am sustained by the certainty that life has meaning. As does death.

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I am the One, and I see all.But the blind man in Apartment 1-A is blind in many ways, as are all human beings, even those with functioning eyes. They ...more

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...because wherever else the future leads, it leads ultimately to death, the end that is present in my beginning and in yours.

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When you have dogs, you witness their uncomplaining acceptance of suffering, their bright desire to make the most of life in spite of the limitations ...more

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I've been badly scared myself, badly, for quite a few years now. You learn to live with it.

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More likely, they would just cease to exist.""That's death.""No, it's different. Death leaves a corps.

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She said...she said don't be scared, we wasn't born to be all the time scared, we was born happy, babies laugh at everything, we was born happy and to...more

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Being alone can be good. It's easy to find peace alone. But sometimes, being alone is a king of death.

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Remember, there are cookies waiting here for you.

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The greatest danger, of course, was to believe that I was equal to them, because assurance can morph into arrogance that Death loves to prove unfounde...more

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Acknowledge your fear, odd one. Fearlessness is for the insane and the arrogant. You are neither. Those who rely on you for their lives will be well s...more

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Then what are you? An electronic Hannibal Lector? You can't eat my liver with fava beans through a modem, you know.

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Terror and pleasure are linked in us. We are a baldly miswired species, Martie. Terror delights us, both the experience of terror and the dealing out ...more

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How obvious can it be? ... The purpose of makeup is to defy the degradations of time, and time is just a synonym for death.