Many persons have died before they expire—died to all earthly longings, so that the last breath is only, as it were, the locking of the doors of the already deserted mansion.

Many persons have died before they expire—died to all earthly longings, so that the last breath is only, as it were, the locking of the doors of the already deserted mansion.

- Oliver Wendel Holmes, Sr.

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Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.

Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.

- Paul Theroux

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We will have to see what happens now that Madame Death has stepped in.

We will have to see what happens now that Madame Death has stepped in.

- Maggi Hamling

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Experience is a comb that nature gives us when we are bald.

Experience is a comb that nature gives us when we are bald.

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keywords: learning , old age

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