"Every man's death is standing in for every other. And since death comes to all there is no way to abate the fear of it except to love the man who stands for us."

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Every human occupation has it repertoire of stock phrases, within which every man twists and turn until his death. His vocabulary, which seems so lavish, reduces itself to a hundred routine formulas at most, which he repeats over and over.

— Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam