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“Death’s an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.”
Ivan Turgenev
Death
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Humor
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Mortality
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Experience
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Reflection
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“You see what a hideous spectacle; the worm half-crushed but writhing still. And, you see, I thought too: I’d break down so many things, I wouldn’t die, why should I! There were problems to be solved, and I was a giant! And now all the problem for the giant is how to die decently.”
Ivan Turgenev
Despair
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Dreams
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Death
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Collapse
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Mortality
3.
“Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that’s all!”
Ivan Turgenev
Death
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Mortality
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Truth
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Challenge
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Reality
4.
“Death doesn’t come running, but you can’t run away from it, neither; nor must you be helping it along.”
Ivan Turgenev
Death
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Fate
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Patience
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Mortality
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Life
5.
“Death’s an old story, but new for each person.”
Ivan Turgenev
Death
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Universality
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Experience
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Mortality
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Life
6.
“A withered maple leaf has left its branch and is falling to the ground; its movements resemble those of a butterfly in flight. Isn’t it strange? The saddest and deadest of things is yet so like the gayest and most vital of creatures?”
Ivan Turgenev
Death
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Nature
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Contrast
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Beauty
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Life
7.
“Death is like a fisherman, who, having caught a fish in his net, leaves it in the water for a time; the fish continues to swim about, but all the while the net is round it, and the fisherman will snatch it out in his own good time.”
Ivan Turgenev
Death
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Fate
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Life
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Mortality
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Waiting
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“Death is something ancient, but it comes fresh to each of us.”
Ivan Turgenev
Death
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Time
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Universality
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Experience
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Mortality
9.
“It’s not for man nor beast to get the better of death. Death doesn’t come running, but you can’t run away from it, neither; nor must you be helping it along.”
Ivan Turgenev
Death
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Fate
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Mortality
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Acceptance
,
Life
10.
“I played in a death-metal band. People either loved us or hated us. Or they thought we were OK.”
Mitch Hedberg
Music
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Band
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Death
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Metal
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Opinion
11.
“My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.”
Mitch Hedberg
Fake
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Plants
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Water
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Death
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Humor
12.
“Gone before To that unknown and silent shore.”
Charles Lamb
Death
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Journey
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Mystery
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Afterlife
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Farewell
13.
“Satire does not look pretty upon a tombstone.”
Charles Lamb
Satire
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Death
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Humor
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Perspective
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Legacy
14.
“I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone.”
Charles Lamb
Death
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Respect
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Memorial
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Tradition
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Criticism
15.
“May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.”
Charles Lamb
Life
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Pipe
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Jest
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Death
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Humor
16.
“When I die, I’m leaving my body to science fiction.”
Steven Wright
Death
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Fiction
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Humor
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Irony
,
Absurdity
17.
“When I die, I'm gonna leave my body to science fiction.”
Steven Wright
Death
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Science Fiction
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Future
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Donation
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Humor
18.
“Sometimes I wish my first word was ‘quote,’ so that on my death bed, my last words could be ‘end quote.’”
Steven Wright
Life
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Death
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Words
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Wit
,
Irony
19.
“I just look at death as not a threat. It’s inevitable, and I have an assurance of eternal life.”
Jimmy Carter
Death
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Faith
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Eternal Life
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Acceptance
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Peace
20.
“The world is impermanent. One should constantly remember death.”
Ramakrishna
Impermanence
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World
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Death
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Awareness
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Life
21.
“Birth is okay and death is okay, if we know that they are only concepts in our mind. Reality transcends both birth and death.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Birth
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Death
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Reality
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Spirituality
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Transcendence
22.
“There is no birth, there is no death; there is no coming, there is no going; there is no same, there is no different; there is no permanent self, there is no annihilation. We only think there is.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Existence
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Life
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Death
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Reality
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Perception
23.
“We have to learn to die in every moment in order to be fully alive.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Life
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Death
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Awareness
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Presence
,
Acceptance
24.
“What can they suffer that do not fear to die?”
Plutarch
Fear
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Death
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Courage
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Strength
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Freedom
25.
“He was deader than a shrunken head at a Hackey Sack festival.”
Scott Adams
Humor
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Death
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Sarcasm
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Expression
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Comparison
26.
“May everyone live, And may everyone die. Hello, my love, And my love, Goodbye.”
Leonard Cohen
Life
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Death
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Love
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Farewell
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Existence
27.
“Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the sea-shore in ten years.”
Leonard Cohen
Mystery
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Irony
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Fate
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Tragedy
,
Death
28.
“It looks like freedom but it feels like death, it’s something in between I guess. It’s closing time.”
Leonard Cohen
Freedom
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Death
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Between
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Guess
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Closing
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“Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.”
Thomas Merton
Death
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Life
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Reflection
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Awareness
,
Mortality
30.
“It is depressing to hear the unfortunate or dying man jest.”
Anton Chekhov
Suffering
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Humor
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Death
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Irony
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Perspective
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