„He thought it happier to be dead,To die for Beauty, than live for bread.“

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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„Pollution, defilement, squalor are words that never would have been created had man lived conformably to Nature. Birds, insects, bears die as cleanly and are disposed of as beautifully as flies. The woods are full of dead and dying trees, yet needed for their beauty to complete the beauty of the living…. How beautiful is all Death!“
— John Muir
„any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man“
— William Faulkner
„I thought you were dead.Stupid. As if I'd die without taking you with me.“
— Patricia Briggs