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In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a little bit of life a thousand times a day until the mind and body are exhausted, until that death which is not the
Vaneigem, Raoul
I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money that went sliding off into the sea. Never as then, amid suicides, hysteria, and groups of fainting people, have I felt the sensation of real death, death without hope, death that is nothing but rottenness, for the spectacle was terrifying but devoid of greatness... I felt something like a divine urge to bombard that whole canyon of shadow, where ambulances collected suicides whose hands were full of rings.
Lorca, Federico Garcia
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Smith, Michael Marshall
The white youth of today have begun to react to the fact that the American Way of Life is a fossil of history. What do they care if their old baldheaded and crew-cut elders don't dig their caveman mops? They couldn't care less about the old, stiff-assed honkies who don't like their new dances: Frog, Monkey, Jerk, Swim, Watusi. All they know is that it feels good to swing to way-out body-rhythms instead of dragging across the dance floor like zombies to the dead beat of mind-smothered Mickey Mouse music.
Cleaver, Eldridge
Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.
Breton, Andre
Absence and death are the same -- only that in death there is no suffering.
Walter Savage Landor
I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
Behan, Brendan F.
I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
Francis, Brendan
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
Cowper, William
Accident, n. A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better.
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