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- Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
- Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922), Les Plaisirs et les Jours (1896)
- Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
- William Blake (1757 - 1827), The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (c. 1790-1793)
- There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases; it is the easiest thing of all to deceive one’s self.
- Demosthenes (384 BC - 322 BC), Olynthiac
- Creditors have better memories than debtors.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Poor Richard’s Almanac (1758)
- I cannot forgive my friends for dying; I do not find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.
- Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "Age and Death"
- It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791)
- I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with a lot of pleasure.
- Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938), Medley
- Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.
- Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Electra
- And come he slow, or come he fast,
It is but death who comes at last. - Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832), Marmion (1808)
- One dies only once, and then for such a long time!
- Molière (1622 - 1673), Le Dépit Amoureux (1656)
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