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“Do you know,’ she said slowly, ‘that the stars that we see the clearest are already dead?... it’s not depressing, it’s beautiful. They’ve been done for who knows how long, but we can still see them. They live on.”

Book:The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot

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“Henry's funeral lasted a little more than an hour. All the slaves he owned surrounded his family and friends and the hole where they put him. Because Valtims Moffett was late, they started without him. Not knowing when Moffett would arrive, Caldonia decided that there, at the end, God would not hold it against Henry Townsend for not having a proper conductor on his last train.”

Death Dying Funerals

Book:The Known World

Source: The Known World

“Robbins, with Dora and Louis on either side, did not speak. A storm came into his head and he missed a good part of the service.”

Dying Mental Health Storm Funerals

Book:The Known World

Source: The Known World

“Consider the whole world reconnoitre individuals j who is there whose life is not taken up with providing for to morrow Do you ask what harm there is in this An infinite deal for such men do not live but are about to live they defer every thing from day to day however circumspect we are life will still outrun us.”

Philosophy

Book:Letters from a Stoic

Source: Letters from a Stoic

“He stood there for a very long time, and the longer he stood, the more he sank. All the heart he had for living in the world began to leave him. He could feel the life running down his chest, his arms and legs, doing something for the ground that it had never been able to do for him.”

Death Dying Depression

Book:The Known World

Source: The Known World

“I don’t want you to be sad, Temujin. Being able to give back the physical body that sheltered you during your life on earth so that it continues to serve the earth is a great privilege.”

Earth Death Dying Dead Death Quotes Physical Body Genghis Khan Genghis Khan Quotes Earthly Life Temujin

Book:Temudjin Obra Completa

Source: Temudjin Obra Completa

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