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It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace. - A

It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace. – Anna Akhmatova

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Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our childrens children, pure on their tongues, and free. – Anna Akhmatova

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Anna Akhmatova
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Suicide is… the sincerest form of criticism life gets. – Wilfred Sheed, The Good Word, 1978

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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him. – E. M. Forster

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The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual – when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions – it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance. – Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Death ends a life, not a relationship. – Jack Lemon

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