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The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

Edgar Allan Poe

The Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper

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Poe, Edgar Allan. "The Premature Burial." The Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper, July 1844.

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Poe, Edgar Allan. "The Premature Burial." Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and Tales, edited by Patrick F. Quinn. Library of America, 1984.

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Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid.

Langston Hughes

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Hughes, Langston. "Note In Music." Opportunity: Journal of Negro Life, Jan. 1936.

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Hughes, Langston. "Note In Music." The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The Poems: 1921-1940, edited by Arnold Rampersad. Vol. 1, University of Missouri Press, 2001.

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It is better to be a fool than to be dead.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. "Crabbed Age and Youth." Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers. London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1881.

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. "Crabbed Age and Youth." Essays I: Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers, edited by Robert-Louis Abrahamson. Edinburgh University Press, 2018.

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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.

Seneca the Younger

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Seneca the Younger. Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium [Moral Letters to Lucilius]. c. 65 AD.

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Seneca, Lucius Annaeus. Letters on Ethics, translated by Margaret Graver and A. A. Long. University of Chicago Press, 2017.

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Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

Vladimir Nabokov

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Nabokov, Vladimir. Pale Fire. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1962.

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You must choose, but choose wisely for as the true Grail will bring you life, the false Grail will take it from you.

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Directed by Steven Spielberg. Lucasfilm Ltd., 1989.

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If you're afraid of dying, shows you have a life worth keeping.

The Last King of Scotland

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The Last King of Scotland. Directed by Kevin Macdonald, DNA Films, FilmFour, TATfilm Produktion, 2006.

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Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at it while it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud.

Life of Pi (novel)

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Martel, Yann. Life of Pi. Knopf Canada, 2001, ch. 1.

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We come out of the dark and go into the dark again, and in between lie the experiences of our life. But the beginning and end, birth and death, we do not experience; they have no subjective character, they fall entirely in the category of objective events, and that's that.

The Magic Mountain

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Mann, Thomas. Der Zauberberg [The Magic Mountain]. S. Fischer Verlag, 1924, ch. 6.

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Mann, Thomas. The Magic Mountain. Everyman's Library, 2005, ch. 6.

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Who knows but life be that which men call death, and death what men call life?

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Euripides. Phrixus. 5th century BC, fragment 830.

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