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• Is not absence death to those who love? -- Alexander Pope
• Taken as a whole, the universe is absurd. -- Walter Savage Lando
• The only certain thing in life is death.
• The only certainties in life are death and taxes.
• The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love. -- Walter S. Lando
• When I came back to Dublin I was court-martialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
  -- Brendan Beha...
• When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
  -- Brendan Beha...
• Knowledge by suffering entereth, And life is perfected by death.
  -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1809-1861) -- A Vision of Poets, Conclusio...
• The facts of life and death are neutral. We, by our responses, give suffering either a positive or a negative meaning.