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Thoughts on mortality from famous figures, tweeted on the anniversary of their death. By @besslovejoy & @brightwithstars
Seattle/New York
Joined December 2012
RIP Oscar Wilde, d. 1900. “One can survive everything nowadays except death.”
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RIP Walter Benjamin, d. 1940. “Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.”
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RIP John Donne, d. 1631. “And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?”
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RIP Virginia Woolf, d. 1941. On her death: "The one experience I shall never describe."
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RIP Ludvig van Beethoven, d. 1827. “Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est.” (Applaud, my friends, the comedy is over.)
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RIP Walt Whitman, d. 1892. “To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.”
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RIP Claude Debussy, d. 1918. “The color of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams.”
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RIP Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, d. 1882. "What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers/ May be heaven's distant lamps."
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RIP Liz Taylor, d. 2011. “It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.”
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RIP Goethe, d. 1832. "Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time."
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RIP Robert Southey, d. 1843. “My hopes are with the Dead, anon my place with them will be.”
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RIP Arthur C. Clarke, d. 2008. “Behind every man now alive stand 30 ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.”
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RIP H.P. Lovecraft, d.1937. “That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die.”
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RIP Ed Abbey, d. 1989. “If my carcass helps nourish the roots of a Juniper tree or the wings of a vulture that is immortality enough for me"
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RIP Clarence Darrow, d. 1938. “I have never killed anyone, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.”
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RIP Zelda Fitzgerald, d. 1948. “Death is the only real elegance.”
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RIP Charles Bukowski, 1994. “I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it: ‘Hello, baby, how you doing?'"
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RIP Hector Berlioz, d. 1869. “Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.”
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RIP Stanley Kubrick, d. 1999. “The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.”
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RIP Louisa May Alcott, d. 1888. “Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.”
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