“ That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! Listen to them! ”
Source: Passage
Categories: Death Life Past Literature
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You are an undertaker. Your business is with the dead. All the time your life is about what is over. Everything that you are is about what is already over. So because you are an undertaker you will live in a certain jumpy condition. 
The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence; the past is a place of learning, not a place of living. 
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try to live so that our death brings no pleasure to the world. 
Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death. 
I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to. 