Realism can break a writer's heart.

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From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. ... I fell morally and intellectually obligated simply to concede that the death penalty experiment has failed. — Harry A. Blackmun

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It is easier to imagine the death of one person than that of a hundred or a thousand... Multiplied, suffering becomes abstract. It is not easy to be moved by abstract things.

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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

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Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself. ― Robin Williams

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Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. ― Henry David Thoreau

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Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem. ― Joseph Stalin

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The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.

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Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.

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