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To die is as if one's eyes had been put out and one cannot see anything any more. Perhaps it is like being shut in a cellar. One is abandoned by all. They have slammed the door and are gone. One does not see anything and notices only the damp smell of putrefaction.

~Edvard Munch

Topics: Abandoned Any Anything Been Being Cannot Cellar Die Does Door Eyes Gone Had Like More Notices Only Out Perhaps Put See Shut Slammed Smell

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Strange, is it not? That of the myriads who Before us pass'd the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the Road Which to discover we must travel too.

~Edward Fitzgerald

Topics: Before Darkness Discover Door Must Returns Road Strange Tell Through Too Travel Us Which Who

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There was the Door to which I found no key; There was the Veil through which I might see.

~Edward Fitzgerald

Topics: Door Found Key Might See Through Veil Which

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Things got so bad that when I went shopping for a house, some people would refuse to open the door if they saw it was me standing there. And drunks would always want to challenge me.

~Edward G. Robinson

Topics: Always Bad Challenge Door Drunks Got House Me Open People Refuse Saw Shopping Some Some People Standing Things Want Would

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I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin; but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle, so all is peace.

~Edward Lear

Topics: Babies Died Distressed Door Eaten Fiddle Had Much Next Next Door Other Peace People Played Twin Twins Violin Who

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A funny thing about near-future stories: the future catches up to them. If the author is unlucky, the future catches up faster than the book can get out the door.

~Edward M. Lerner

Topics: About Author Book Door Faster Funny Funny Thing Future Get Out Stories Than Them Thing Unlucky Up

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I always felt that acting was an escape, like having the secret key to every door and permission to go into any realm and soak it up. I enjoy that free pass.

~Edward Norton

Topics: Acting Always Any Door Enjoy Escape Every Felt Free Go Having Key Like Pass Permission Realm Secret Soak Up

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I have acquired - some would say deservedly - quite a few rivals: former Israeli politicians, some of whom at their height were stars beloved by large parts of the public. But today, they aren't in politics, and when they sit alone in their room, they say to themselves that Barak is the one who showed them out the door.

~Ehud Barak

Topics: Acquired Alone Beloved Door Few Former Height Israeli Large Out Parts Politicians Politics Public Quite Rivals Room Say Sit Some Stars Them Themselves They Say Today Were Who Whom Would

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I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three.

~Elayne Boosler

Topics: Always Door Every Figure Go How Lock Locks Long Matter Other Out Picking Row Six Somebody Stands Three

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The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.

~Eleonora Duse

Topics: Before Create Door Happiness Isolation Life Little Room Shut Table

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