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“Death cannot be struggled against, brother. It ever arrives, defiant of every hiding place, of every frantic attempt to escape. Death is every mortal's shadow, his true shadow, and time is its servant, spinning that shadow slowly round, until what stretched before one now stretched before him.”
Source : Steven Erikson (2009). “Midnight Tides: (Malazan Book Of Fallen 5)”, p.316, Random House
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“I'm from the same planet as David Bowie.”
Source : "The Oddly Comforting Daily Life of Tilda Swinton". Interview with Anna Peele, www.esquire.com. April 11, 2014. 
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“Minimum sales prices for alcohol are a startlingly bad idea. As with excise duties, the effects are regressive.”
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“Shadows are in reality, when the sun is shining, the most conspicuous thing in a landscape, next to the highest lights.”
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“In our society, real power does not happen to lie in the political system, it lies in the private economy: that’s where the decisions are made about what’s produced, how much is produced, what’s consumed, where investment takes place, who has jobs, who controls the resources, and so on and so forth. And as long as that remains the case, changes inside the political system can make some difference-I don’t want to say it’s zero-but the differences are going to be very slight.”
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“I do wish my breasts were bigger. Not big... but less small.”
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“Black does not signify the darkness related to death or nothingness, but a darkness that combines everything and holds the possibility of creation, a temporary death that embraces rebirth.”
Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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“I must go on living. And, though it may be childish of me, I can't go on in simple compliance. From now on I must struggle with the world. I thought that Mother might well be the last of those who can end their lives beautifully and sadly, struggling with no one, neither hating nor betraying anyone. In the world to come there will be no room for such people. The dying are beautiful, but to live, to survive – those things somehow seem hideous and contaminated with blood.”
