Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
Beyond the grave they will find nothing but death. But we shall keep the secret, and for their happiness we shall allure them with the reward of heaven and eternity.
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The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.
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From the sons of Ith, the first of the Gael to get his death in Ireland, there came in the after time Fathadh Canaan, that got the sway over the whole world from the rising to the setting sun, and that took hostages of the streams and the birds and the languages.
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My death is incidental, and I worry very much about my loved ones and, you know, would like to make it as easy as possible for them. Or wish I could will away whatever, you know, the sadness they will feel when I die. But for me, nothing. The world goes on.
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Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
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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.
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One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.
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To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
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Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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I'm laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing.
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I went to the University of Michigan for one year, and fortunately they had a foreign-film cinema, and I discovered it, and I thought I died and went to heaven.
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My dad died when I was 23. His death was sudden and shocking - the result of a car crash - and I never got to say goodbye.
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Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.
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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
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Death does not exist.
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The very first thing you learn if you're a gentleman is that you never compare one woman to another. That's the way of all death.
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London had so much death in its history, it was hard to find a spot without spirits. They formed a safety net. Still, you had to hope the ones you got were good.
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Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
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I didn't get into comedy to talk about violent death all the time.
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There must be some other possibility than death or lifelong penance, said the Ellen Ward of my dream, that woman I hate and fear. I am sure she meant some meeting, some intersection of lines; and some cowardly, hopeful geometer in my brain tells me it is the angle at which two lines prop each other up, the leaning together from the vertical which produces the false arch.
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Essence's job was to keep Duffy quiet. When Duffy scored it was against somebody else.
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Remember to never split an infinitive. The passive voice should never be used. Do not put statements in the negative form. Proofread carefully to see if you words out. And don't start a sentence with a conjugation.
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Beyond the grave they will find nothing but death. But we shall keep the secret, and for their happiness we shall allure them with the reward of heaven and eternity.
