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Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it

Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well. – Alexander Smith

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If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death. – Alexander Smith

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Fine phrases I value more than bank-notes. I have ear for no other harmony than the harmony of words. To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for. – Alexander Smith

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Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. – Alexander Smith

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When death has you by the throat, you dont mince words. – Friedrich Durrenmatt

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I think people would be alive today if there were a death penalty. – Nancy Reagan

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I think that obviously, there is a perverse attraction to a fundamentally changed world or the end of the world. There is a death wish, a perverse death wish. Not just for ourselves, not just for the movie Death Wish, but for the end of all human life. – John Hodgman

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All architects want to live beyond their deaths. – Philip Johnson

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There are two things that come very easily to me: rooting for New York sports teams and making mistakes. – Harvey Weinstein

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If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken. – Idries Shah

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