"Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life."

Death, Life, Goal, Body

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"Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life."

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"Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy."

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"I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive."

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"I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one."

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"Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves."

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"Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment."

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"Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon."

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"A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility."

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"Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness."

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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

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

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

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

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

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