"It is not death therefore that is burdensome, but the fear of death."

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Ambrose Burnside

#Fear Of Death Quotes

“If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir.”
“Does getting closer to the subject make the photograph more intimate? I'm sure it takes more than that. What comes next? The face, the nude? That's what I'd love to do. Who would even let me do that?”
“The reality in which a camera turns up is always posed, e.g., the moon landing.”

Source : Hans Magnus Enzensberger (1982). “Critical Essays: Hans Magnus Enzensberger”, p.74, A&C Black
“British people still wear clothes. By clothes I mean actual clothes: jackets and shirts and ties and suits. The spirit of Beau Brummell is still visible. English men make an effort. Weâ€™ve lost that in the US. Everyone is more concerned with being comfortable.”
“In the face of pain there are no heroes.”
“A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.”
“The ancients could communicate with the gods in two ways. First, it was (and is) possible to go into a trance and visit the gods in their celestial retreats, as the great shamans have always done. More easily, and less dangerously, they could let the gods speak through code, that is, divination, using dice, entrails, bird patterns, yarrow sticks, cards.”
“Find the god in your own heart and you will understand by direct intuition what all the great teachers, real mystics, true philosophers and inspired people have been trying to tell you by the tortuous method of using words.”

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