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Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.
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We breathe, sleep, drink, eat, work and then die! The end of life is death. What do you long for? Love? A few kisses and you will be powerless. Money? What for? To gratify your desires. Glory? What coems after it all? Death! Death alone is certain.
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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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Born:
August 5, 1850
Died:
July 6, 1893
(aged 42)
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