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There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertiliz

There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: lifes highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death. – Soren Kierkegaard

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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences. – Soren Kierkegaard

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Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood. – Soren Kierkegaard

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Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising. – Plautus

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When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty. – W. C. Fields

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