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What makes the loss even more sensitive, are the language codes between him and us, that suddenly become useless and empty.

Villa Triste
The war against death, dear Harry, is always a beautiful, noble, and wonderful, and glorious thing, and so, it follows, is the war against war. But it is always hopeless and quixotic too.

Steppenwolf
I believe that the struggle against death, the unconditional and self-willed determination to live, is the mode of power behind the lives and activities of all outstanding men.

Steppenwolf
A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born but you can choose how you die.

1Q84
Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one�s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

The Bell Jar
My great terror of Death or not as Death but as not-life.

Manuscript
He who does not fear death cares naught for threats
Every moment of life is a step towards death
The grave is still the best shelter against the storms of destiny
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