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Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.

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Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.

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You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.

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After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.

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Mirrors are the doors through which Death comes and goes.

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The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

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I do not like to sleep when your body lies against mine at night, for I think of death which comes so quickly to put us thoroughly to sleep.

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Born: July 5, 1889
Died: October 11, 1963 (aged 74)
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