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I was taught to confront things you cant avoid. Death is one of th

I was taught to confront things you cant avoid. Death is one of those things. To live in a society where youre trying not to look at it is stupid because looking at death throws us back into life with more vigour and energy. The fact that flowers dont last for ever makes them beautiful. – Damien Hirst

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I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artists big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, thats great. – Damien Hirst

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Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and avoid it, but its such a big thing that you cant. – Damien Hirst

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When I did Bumble-ardy, I was so intensely aware of death. Eugene, my friend and partner, was dying here in the house when I did Bumble-ardy. I did Bumble-ardy to save myself. I did not want to die with him. I wanted to live, as any human being does. – Maurice Sendak

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I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life. – Corazon Aquino

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Its normally the kiss of death to be identified as a rising star, or someone to watch. – George Osborne

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The miser, starving his brothers body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable. – Theodore Parker

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