"Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend."
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I Am Legend
by
Richard Matheson
"There is no such thing as Death, though there be a thing called Change."
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She
by
H. Rider Haggard
"That which is alive and hath known death, and that which is dead yet can never die, for in the Circle of the Spirit life is naught and death is naught. Yea, all things live for ever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten."
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She
by
H. Rider Haggard
My soul is in the sky.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
by
William Shakespeare
The flesh surrenders itself, he thought. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submitted to the instruments of Time. What can we say of this? I occurred. I am not . . . yet, I occurred.
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Dune Messiah
by
Frank Herbert
Life and death are mysterious states, and we know little of the resources of either.
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Carmilla
by
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
All men must die, Jon Snow. But first we'll live.
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A Storm of Swords
by
George R. R. Martin
Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.
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A Game of Thrones
by
George R. R. Martin
It was a fundamental principle of the Gradgrind philosophy that everything was to be paid for. Nobody was ever on any account to give anybody anything, or render anybody help without purchase. Gratitude was to be abolished, and the virtues springing from it were not to be. Every inch of the existence of mankind, from birth to death, was to be a bargain across a counter. And if we didn't get to Heaven that way, it was not a politico-economical place, and we had no business there.
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Hard Times
by
Charles Dickens
"I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you."
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The Fountainhead
by
Ayn Rand