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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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Courage
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Anna Akhmatova
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Death is less bitter punishment than deaths delay. – Ovid

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When Im lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me. – Steven Morrissey

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The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment. – Sting

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Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death. – Taylor Caldwell

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