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Quote by Paul Theroux
Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make

Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art. – Paul Theroux

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Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind. – Paul Theroux

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Tourists dont know where theyve been, travelers dont know where theyre going. – Paul Theroux

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The realization that he is white in a black country, and respected for it, is the turning point in the expatriates career. He can either forget it, or capitalize on it. Most choose the latter. – Paul Theroux

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations. – Michel de Montaigne

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If you have only one passion in life – football – and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself. – Eric Cantona

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I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people, but that of boring them to death. – Leo Burnett

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Death is only a larger kind of going abroad. – Samuel Butler

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