"To relish life and to relish death/ And to be grateful for both/ And to be open for more/ In both death and life."

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“Only if we see religion and science as symbols leading to the depth of reality, can we talk of meaningful dialogue between the two.”

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“It is much worse to be dead when we are alive/ Dead by the fear of death, when we are not yet dead!/ The incredible paradox of worrying to avoid death / Being the very cause of death!”

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— Milla Jovovich

Music1975

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"As your father used to say, we shared the longest ride together, this thing called life, and mine has been filled with joy because of you."

— Nicholas Sparks

Literature1965

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"I will pass over my flirtation with journalism as a way of making a living, an idea I dropped when I discovered that in the fifties — unlike now — female journalists always ended up writing the obitua…"

— Margaret Atwood

Literature1939

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"Veronika brought her interior monologue to a close and made a promise to herself: she would not leave Villete alive. It was best to put an end to everything now, while she was still brave and healthy …"

— Paulo Coelho

Science1947–1985

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