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I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.

~Aleister Crowley

Topics: All Night Arms Awakening Corpse Danced Doubt Drank Faith Found Her Morning Night Slept

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There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it.

~Alexander Herzen

Topics: Cannot Convince Corpse Hit Knock More Nothing Pieces Stubborn Than World You

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My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening.

~Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Topics: Always Baby Bride Corpse Every Father Funeral Wanted Wedding

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We're all making castles in the sand, wonderful tapestries, an exquisite corpse. But is it meaningful? No. It's dogs barking. It doesn't mean anything beyond our yelping, at the pain of being alive.

~Ariel Pink

Topics: Alive Anything Barking Being Beyond Castles Corpse Dogs Exquisite Making Mean Meaningful Our Pain Sand Wonderful

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He would make a lovely corpse.

~Charles Dickens

Topics: Corpse He Lovely Make Would

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Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.

~David Bowie

Topics: Absence Absolute Challenging Confront Confrontation Corpse Disturbing Ever Least Life Most Once Will You

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A conventional crime story is simple - it's just a corpse in the river or something, and a detective with an alcohol problem.

~David Lagercrantz

Topics: Alcohol Conventional Corpse Crime Detective Just Problem River Simple Something Story

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Photographers usually want to photograph facts and things. But I'm interested in the nature of the thing itself. A photograph of someone sleeping tells me nothing about their dream state; a photograph of a corpse tells me nothing about the nature of death. My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient.

~Duane Michals

Topics: About Corpse Death Dream Event Facts Find Interested Itself Life Me My Life Myself Nature Nothing Photograph Photographers Sleeping Someone State Tells Temporal Thing Things Transient Very Want Work

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Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.

~Ed Westwick

Topics: Corpse Good-Looking Leave Tattoo

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Under each formula lies a corpse.

~Emile M. Cioran

Topics: Corpse Each Formula Lies

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