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It is vain for the coward to flee death follows close behind it is only by defying it that the brave escape. – Voltaire

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I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end. – Pope John XXIII

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Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing. – Christopher Fry

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My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning. – Huey Newton

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No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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