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The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entere

The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death. – Henry Miller

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I didnt have to think up so much as a comma or a semicolon; it was all given, straight from the celestial recording room. Weary, I would beg for a break, an intermission, time enough, lets say, to go to the toilet or take a breath of fresh air on the balcony. Nothing doing! – Henry Miller

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inspirational
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Henry Miller
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It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir. – Henry Miller

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Letters (writing)
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Henry Miller
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What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it? – Henry Miller

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Truth
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Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life. – Samuel Butler

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Death

And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up. – Nigella Lawson

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Death

There is a remedy for everything; it is called death. – Proverb

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Life is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death. – Desmond Morris

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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time. – Victor Hugo

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In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time: the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream. – Thomas Carlyle

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