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“It is a brave thing to die.”

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Book:The Spirit Engineer

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“Only poor men are brave; rich men have no need to be.”

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“All men are short of money, especially the rich ones. That my friend is capitalism.”

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“The séance had made its impression, not so much on my senses, but on the very imagination of my soul.”

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“Certain men are liable to be duped, and there is no creature so gullible as the certain man.”

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“People only ever doubt certainties, otherwise, where’s the sport?”

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“What then, had I discovered? That there is nobody so duplicitous as oneself? That certainty is nothing but unreasonable belief? That there can be no answer to death? That there should be no answer to it, at least not for the living? That we have in all of us, written into our very matter, an unpassable divide; and if there is a bridge between this world and the next, then surely there is only one toll to pay.”

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Book:The Spirit Engineer

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“A man cannot hide from his secrets; he may as well hide from his skin.”

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“For someone so unwell, he seemed preposterously healthy.”

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“How does it feel, to see a dying child? One does not feel at all for there is nothing in the mind to make sense of it. Nothing, but one's own death.”

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“One’s consciousness passes into a new realm on the brink of death, whether the soul does so or not. Anger, jealousy, hatred, ambition, regret, none of them matter in the end.”

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“Women need space to grieve, not husbands.”

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“If ghosts are real, death is not.”

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“Ghosts are mere memories of lives passed, granted a reassuring afterlife, manifested by the pleading, grasping, fearful imagination of our own mortality.”

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“A mystery is only a fact in disguise”

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“How those poor souls people crammed themselves into the lifeboats, all classes mixed together I shall never know. I experienced something similar in the Opera House last Tuesday evening, though at least we were dry. Poor Mr Ismay; I hear he weeps at the mere sight of an ice cube”

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