“They are both spectacular, life and death.”
Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman
"Hush," p. 61
The Shape (2000), Sequence: “Big Chamber”
“Life is the most spectacular show on earth”
— Sara Gruen, book Water for Elephants
Variant: Life is the greatest show on earth!
Source: Water for Elephants
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vīkṣya tāṃ vīkṣaṇīyāmbujāsyaśriyaṃ
svaśriyaṃ śrīśriyaṃ brahmavidyāśriyam ।
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Canto I, Stanza 55.
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