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    J.R. Ackerley
    “A dog has one aim in life... to bestow his heart.”
    ― J. R. Ackerley
    tags: care, dog, doglovers, humanity, kindness, love, peace, selflessness
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    W.H. Auden
    “In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.”
    ― W. H. Auden
    231 likes

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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
    119057 likes

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    Deb Caletti
    “Sometimes you're sure dogs have some secret, superior intelligence, and other times you know they're only their simple, goofy selves.”
    ― Deb Caletti, The Six Rules of Maybe
    tags: dogs
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    John Grogan
    “Dogs are great. Bad dogs, if you can really call them that, are perhaps the greatest of them all.”
    ― John Grogan, Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World’s Worst Dog
    tags: dogs, life
    221 likes

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    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    ― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
    tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
    37984 likes

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    Mitch Albom
    “Death ends a life, not a relationship.”
    ― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
    tags: death, life
    11426 likes

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    William Shakespeare
    “When he shall die,
    Take him and cut him out in little stars,
    And he will make the face of heaven so fine
    That all the world will be in love with night
    And pay no worship to the garish sun.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
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    François Rabelais
    “I go to seek a Great Perhaps.”
    ― François Rabelais
    tags: death, french-renaissance-writer, john-green, last-words, life, looking-for-alaska, meaning-of-life, miles-halter
    4568 likes

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    Mitch Albom
    “Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.”
    ― Mitch Albom
    tags: death, immortality, love
    2071 likes

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    George R.R. Martin
    “Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: death, life
    2587 likes

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    Haruki Murakami
    “Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: 24 Stories
    tags: death, life
    2067 likes

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    Antonio Porchia
    “One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.”
    ― Antonio Porchia
    tags: death, hope, immortality, life, memory, remembrance
    1727 likes

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    Isaac Asimov
    “Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
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    Will Rogers
    “If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.”
    ― Will Rogers
    tags: afterlife, death, dogs, heaven
    1875 likes

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    Franz Kafka
    “The meaning of life is that it stops.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: death, life
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    Cassandra Clare
    “No one can say that death found in me a willing comrade, or that I went easily.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess
    tags: brb-crying, cassandra-clare, clockwork-princess, death, dying, i-can-t-even, mortality, omg-my-feels, the-infernal-devices
    1131 likes

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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena
    tags: attachment, death, loss, worth
    1558 likes

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    Jim Morrison
    “No one here gets out alive.”
    ― Jim Morrison
    tags: death, life, verse
    797 likes

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    W.H. Auden
    “He was my North, my South, my East and West,
    My working week and my Sunday rest,
    My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
    I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.”
    ― W. H. Auden, Collected Poems
    tags: death, love, poetry
    762 likes

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  • #21
    Sean Mangan
    “Life is too short when you think of the length of death”
    ― Sean Mangan
    tags: death, life
    409 likes

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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Even in the grave, all is not lost.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: death, hopelessness
    450 likes

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  • #23
    “How could the death of someone you had never met affect you so?”
    ― Robert Galbraith, The Cuckoo's Calling
    tags: death, jofer
    319 likes

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    Milan Kundera
    “Dogs do not have many advantages over people, but one of them is extremely important: euthanasia is not forbidden by law in their case; animals have the right to a merciful death.”
    ― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
    tags: animal-rights, animals, death, euthanasia, human-rights
    398 likes

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    Samuel Beckett
    “The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.”
    ― Samuel Beckett, Endgame
    tags: death, life
    386 likes

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    Emil M. Cioran
    “The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.”
    ― E. M. Cioran
    tags: death, existence, life, reason, thinking
    459 likes

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  • #27
    Patricia Briggs
    “The only certainty life contains is death.”
    ― Patricia Briggs, When Demons Walk
    tags: death, life
    116 likes

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    Milan Kundera
    “Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring--it was peace.”
    ― Milan Kundera
    tags: dogs, peace
    2470 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: animals, dogs, heaven
    1261 likes

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    Roger A. Caras
    “Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.”
    ― Roger Caras
    tags: dogs, life
    546 likes



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