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Quote by Samuel Butler
Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor rememberi

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better. – Samuel Butler

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Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such. – Samuel Butler

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Science without conscience is the death of the soul. – Francois Rabelais

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Death obsesses me, yes it does. I cant really understand why it doesnt obsess everyone – I think it does really, Im just a little more out about it. – J. K. Rowling

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As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you cant tell your parents that. – Maurice Sendak

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