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The Dead
«The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
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differ, differed, educated, The Dead, uneducated
«On a day of burial there is no perspective -- for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury him is a day of chores and crowds, of hands false or true to be shaken, of the immediate cares of mourning. The dead friend will not really die until tomorrow, when silence is round you again. Then he will show himself complete, as he was -- to tear himself away, as he was, from the substantial you. Only then will you cry out because of him who is leaving and whom you cannot detain.»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(Author, Pilot, Writer)
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«The gaudy leonine sunflower Hangs black and barren on its stalk, And down the windy garden walk The dead leaves scatter,- hour by hour»
«Taking shelter in the dead is death itself, and only taking all the risk of life to the fullest extent is living.»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
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Death itself, extent, fullest, shelter, sheltering, The Dead