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“We die twice. We physically die when our body gives up life,” Adair said. “And we die when our stories no longer talk. When our stories no longer talk, we die.”
Heraclitus is said to have produced a single work on papyrus, [a] which has not survived; however, over 100 fragments of this work survive in quotations by other authors. [ note 5 ] The title is unknown, [ 19 ] but many later writers refer to this work, and works by other pre-Socratics, as On Nature .
Easier said than done; East is east, and west is west (and never the twain shall meet) East, west, home is best; Easy come, easy go; Easy, times easy, is still easy; Early marriage, earlier pregnant; Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper; Eat, drink and be merry, (for tomorrow we die)
Twice he sent hundreds of people under the direction of Xu Fu to find the legendary elixir of life, but failed. He allegedly died of mercury poisoning after he had eaten too many mercury pills, prescribed by his court doctors to make him immortal. [17] Ravana, Ravana is a mythological King in Hindu mythology. Rawana was an ambitious brahmin who ...
The Man Who Died Twice is a narrative poem by Edwin Arlington Robinson that was first published in 1924. [1] The poem is written in blank verse. Its hero is the unfulfilled musician Fernando Nash. It was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1925. [2]
The Mende believe that people die twice: once during the process of joining the secret society, and again during biological death after which they become ancestors. However, some Mende also believe that after people are created by God they live ten consecutive lives, each in progressively descending worlds. [ 116 ]
If we had said back then, it is not right when Hermann Göring simply puts 100,000 Communists in the concentration camps, in order to let them die. I can imagine that perhaps 30,000 to 40,000 Protestant Christians would have had their heads cut off, but I can also imagine that we would have rescued 30–40 million people , because that is what ...
Memento mori (Latin for "remember (that you have) to die") [2] is an artistic or symbolic trope acting as a reminder of the inevitability of death. [2] The concept has its roots in the philosophers of classical antiquity and Christianity , and appeared in funerary art and architecture from the medieval period onwards.