For wisdom is the property of the dead, A something incompatible with life; and power,...
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He used this great, sad, motionless face to suggest various related things: a one-track mind near the track's end of pure insanity; mulish imperturbability under the wildest of circumstances; how dead a human being can get and still be alive...
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But psychoanalysis has taught that the dead—a dead parent, for example—can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts.
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For my enemy is dead, a man divine as myself is dead, I look where he lies white-faced and still in the...
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Fie, 'tis a fault to heaven, A fault against the dead, a fault to nature,...
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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