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“I know death is the fascinating snake under the leaves, sliding and sliding; I know the heart loves him too, can't turn away, can't break the spell. Everything wants to enter the slow thickness, aches to be peaceful finally and at any cost. Wants to be stone.”

Knows Want Heart Death Turns Break Cost Stones Peaceful Fascinating Spells Snakes Ache Heart Love Thickness

Book:Dream Work

Source: Dream Work

“I am death, not taxes. I turn up only once.”

Death Turns Taxes Discworld

Book:Feet of Clay: A Novel of Discworld

Source: Feet of Clay: A Novel of Discworld

“There must be some unwritten law that says about fifty people have to move into your house when somebody dies. If it weren't for the smell of death clinging to the walls, you might think it was your family's turn to host the month neighborhood potluck supper.”

People Ifs Thinking Might Moving Law Death Dies Turns House Wall Months Smell Fifty Neighborhood Host Clinging Supper Unwritten Potluck

Book:Under the Wolf, Under the Dog

Source: Under the Wolf, Under the Dog

“When the dust of death has choked a great man's voice, the common words he said turn oracles, the common thoughts he yoked like horses draw like griffins.”

Men Said Death Turns Voice Common Draws Horse Dust Great Men Oracles

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)

“We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.”

Death Dies Turns Dust

Book:The Works of William Cowper: Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations. With a Life of the Author

Source: The Works of William Cowper: Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations. With a Life of the Author

“We should turn our death into a celebration, even if only out of a malice towards life: towards the woman who wants to leave--us!”

Ifs Want Should Death Turns Dying Celebration Malice

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Let us imagine a number of men in chains and all condemned to death, where some are killed each day in the sight of the others, and those who remain see their own fate in that of their fellows and wait their turn, looking at each other sorrowfully and without hope. It is an image of the condition of man.”

Men Death Turns Waiting Numbers Fate Imagine Conditions Sight Fellows Chains Each Day Without Hope

Book:Pascal's Pensees

Source: Pascal's Pensees