“Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible.”
Leo Tolstoy book War and Peace
Source: War and Peace
“Despite rumor, Death isn't cruel--merely terribly, terribly good at his job.”
— Terry Pratchett, book Sourcery
Source: Sourcery
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