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We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind. – Thornton Wilder

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When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole. – Thornton Wilder

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Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion. – Thornton Wilder

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Perhaps we dont need these religious concoctions to pillow the fear of death. Just the fact that there is an unknown, and something greater, can bring a feeling of peace. Thats enough for me. – Brad Pitt

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We are all of us resigned to death: its life we arent resigned to. – Graham Greene

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I feel monotony and death to be almost the same. – Charlotte Bronte

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Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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