Death (n.) is, as a result of its tremendous solemnity, the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.
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Death (n.) makes time dearer, for death gives one day, sometimes one hour, infinite worth. so with the thought of death the earnest person is able to create a scarcity so that the year and the day receive infinite worth.
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Death (n.) gives life force as nothing else does. It makes one alert as nothing else does.
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Death (n.) is the only certainty, and the only thing about which nothing is certain.
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Death (n.) is the curtain falling on the stage of reality: king and beggar turn out to be all alike — actors, men.