"The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death."

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"The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death."

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"The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it."

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"The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself."

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"The limit of every pain is an even greater pain."

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"To act is to anchor in the imminent future."

Act, Future

"For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion."

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"Glory - once achieved, what is it worth?"

Glory, Worth

"God - a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays."

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"Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off."

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"I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers."

Telegrams, Day, Nothing

"I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual."

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"Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death."

Berenice Abbott, American Photographer

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"A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death."

Lucius Accius, Italian Poet

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"The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them."

Joseph Addison, English Writer

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"Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative."

Alfred Adler, Austrian Psychologist

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"Normality is death."

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher

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"Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people."

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher

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"Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

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"Death is softer by far than tyranny."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

Death, Tyranny

"For children preserve the fame of a man after his death."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

Death, Children, Fame, Man

"Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

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