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In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.

Death

God is an immensity, while this disease, this death, which is in me, this small, tightly defined pedestrian event, is merely and perfectly real, without miracle – or instruction.

Death

It is like visiting one’s funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which one cannot enter as oneself.

Death

Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

Death

He would make a lovely corpse.

Death

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Death

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.

Death

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

Death