Poul Anderson - Death Quotes

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The old man murmured: Aye, we draw to an end. Dying hurts. Nonetheless the forefathers were wise who in their myths made Nan coequal with Lesu. A thing which endured forever would become unendurable. Death opens a way, for peoples as well as for people.

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I think you look on death as your friend, she murmured. That is a strange friend for a young man to have.
The only faithful friend in this world, he said. Death is always sure to be at your side.

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Men, whose span is cruelly short, rush nonetheless to death in their youth as to a maiden's arms.

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Hurry and hurry, autumn leaves hurrying on the rainy wind, snow hurrying out of the sky, life hurrying to death, gods hurrying to oblivion.

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Two lives met across death and centuries. To ask what it meant is meaningless. There is no destiny. But sometimes there is bravery

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History does not tend to the better, Doc, it does not, it does not. We imagine so because events have produced our glorious selves. Think, however. Put aside the romantic legends and look at the facts. The average Frenchman in 1800 was no more unfree than the average Englishman. The French Empire could have brought Europe together, and could have been liberalized from within, and there might have been no World War I in which Western civilization cut its own throat. Because that's what's happened, you know. We're still busy bleeding to death, but we haven't far to go now.

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