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For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? – Kahlil Gibran, from "The Prophet"

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All say, “How hard it is that we have to die” – a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live. – Mark Twain

Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we are inside on the way out, not outside on the way in. – George Bernard Shaw

Death is beautiful when seen to be a law, and not an accident – It is as common as life. – Henry David Thoreau, 11 March 1842, letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson

People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It is as though they were traveling abroad. – Marcel Proust

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