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To die before being painted by Sargent is to go to Heaven prematurely.
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To die before being painted by Sargent is to go to Heaven prematurely.
The eye was in the tomb and stared at Cain.
Death has no terror; only a Death of shame!
Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.
The only time we can talk about death is while we're alive, not afterwards.
I can't shake off the idea that after death you keep being alive. That to be dead is to live an endless nightmare.
It is impossible that any thing so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
When I died last, and, Dear, I die as often as from thee I go though it be but an hour ago and lovers hours be full eternity.
Men will not always die quietly.
From the moment of my birth, the angels of anxiety, worry, and death stood at my side, followed me out when I played, followed me in the sun of springtime and in the glories of summer. They stood at my side in the evening when I closed my eyes, and intimidated me with death, hell, and eternal damnation.