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“Love and death are the great gifts that are given to us; mostly, they are passed on unopened.”

- Rainer Maria Rilke
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“All say how hard it is that we have to die — a strange complaint from the mouths of people who have had to live.”

- Mark Twain
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“Death – the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening”

- Sir Walter Scott
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“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”

- Anais Nin
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“The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.”

- Thornton Wilder
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“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”

- Mae West
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