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Quote by Leon Bloy

“There are places in the heart that do not yet exist; suffering has to enter in for them to come to be.”

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French novelist known for his profound social criticism and exploration of human nature. Leon Bloy's works often focus on the lives of the underprivileged, revealing the injustices of society and the complexity of human nature. more

“Marla tells me how in the wild you don't see old animals because as soon as they age, animals die. If they get sick or slow down, something stronger kills them. Animals aren't meant to get old. Marla lies down on her bed and undoes the tie on her bathrobe, and says our culture has made death something wrong. Old animals should be an unnatural exception. Freaks.”

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Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.”

Men Life Death Certain Loses Certain Death

Author:Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

“Maybe this is why so many serial killers work in pairs. It's nice not to feel alone in a world full of victims or enemies. It's no wonder Waltraud Wagner, the Austrian Angel of Death, convinced her friends to kill with her. It just seems natural. You and me against the world.”

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Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.”

“He who doesn't fear death dies only once.”

“Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.”

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Author:Carter Burwell

“The idea is to die young as late as possible.”

“Boy, when you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead?”

Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

“If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust, and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless misery. He would break down, at last, as every good fortune, as every dynasty, as every civilization does. In place of this we have death.”

Source: The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893)

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