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The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
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Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.
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If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.
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For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
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Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.