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• There was only the cemetery itself, spread out in the moonlight like a soft grey hallucination, a stony wilderness of Victorian melancholy.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Hallucinations, Wilderness, Melancholy

  Audrey Niffenegger (2009). “Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• My belief in ghosts swings with the wind. But my belief that the cemetery felt happy and not sad-I've never changed my mind about that.

  Carol Plum-Ucci

  Swings, Wind, Mind

  Carol Plum-Ucci (2011). “Following Christopher Creed”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Peace is not the silence of cemeteries, but the song of social justice.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Song, Justice, Silence

  "Rights Expert Urges the UN General Assembly to Adopt a More Decisive Role in Peace-making". "Alfred de Zayas' Human Rights Corner" blog, dezayasalfred.wordpress.com. September 26, 2013.

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• Cemeteries in Bohemia are like gardens. The graves are covered with grass and colourful flowers. Modest tombstones are lost in the greenery. When the sun goes down, the cemetery sparkles with tiny candles... no matter how brutal life becomes, peace always reigns in the cemetery. Even in wartime, even in Hitler's time, even in Stalin's time.

  Milan Kundera

  Tombstone, Flower, Garden

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• He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

  Harold Wilson

  Change, Life Changing, Teaching

  Speech to the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France, quoted in "The New York Times", (p. 12), January 24, 1967.

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• History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Men, Ideas, History

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• I wanted to be calm, like a mound with all its cities destroyed, and tranquil, like a full cemetery.

  Yehuda Amichai

  Cities, Calm, Wanted

  Yehuda Amichai, “I Have Become Very Hairy”

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• Many of the cemeteries are beautiful, and are kept in perfect order. When one goes from the levee or the business streets [of New Orleans] to it, to a cemetery, he observes to himself that if those people down there would live as neatly while they are alive as they do after they are dead, they would find many advantages in it; and besides, their quarter would be the wonder and admiration of the business world.

  Mark Twain

  Beautiful, New Orleans, Order

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• It's a small world. When you put it in a cemetery, it is.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  World, Small World

  "Cat's Cradle". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, ch. 31, 1963.

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• I am a cemetery by the moon unblessed.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Moon

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• Left love behind many years ago. Now it rests under a cross in the cemetery in Tombstone.

  Franco Nero

  Tombstone, Love Is, Years

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• We are all our own graveyards, I believe; we squat amongst the tombs of the people we were. If we're healthy, every day is a celebration, a Day of the Dead, in which we give thanks for the lives that we lived, and if we are neurotic we brood and mourn and wish that the past was still present.

  Clive Barker

  Life, Believe, Health

  FaceBook post by Clive Barker from Mar 06, 2013

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• Being president is like running a cemetery: you've got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening.

  William J. Clinton

  Running, Wisdom, Witty

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• Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Bores, Stills, Walking

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• Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me.

  Steve Jobs

  Men, Best Job, Design Work

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.57, Prabhat Prakashan

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• While you are living, part of you has slipped away to the cemetery.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

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• The cemetery is full of indispensable people.

  Winston Churchill

  People, Indispensable

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• Building prisons to fight crime is like building cemeteries to fight disease.

  Jack Levin

  Fighting, Disease, Prison

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• The only people without problems are those in cemeteries. It is not what happens to us that separates failures from successes. It is how we perceive and what we do about what happens that makes the difference.

  Tony Robbins

  Differences, People, Problem

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

  Babe Ruth

  Sports, Baseball, Ifs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.' I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have - When he gives everything that is in him to do the job he has before him. That is all you can ask of him and that is what I have tried to do.

  Harry S. Truman

  Life, Jobs, Tombstone

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• Go to a nearby military cemetery and look at the American flags stuck on each grave and think of the person buried there who was killed for global domination or for the blunders and egomania of our leadership. And remember, for every person buried there, 10 more loved that person and were shattered by the loss. Instead of saluting, softly say: 'I'm sorry.' ... We need to make Memorial Day a relic of the past.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Memorial Day, Sorry, War

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• The only people without problems are in cemeteries. If you don't have problems, get on your knees and pray.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, People, Knees

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• We think that a powerful and vigorous movement is impossible without differences - "true conformity" is possible only in the cemetery.

  Joseph Stalin

  Powerful, Thinking, Differences

  "Our purposes". Pravda #1, Newspaper, January 22, 1912.

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• The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.

  Pope John Paul II

  Death, Catholic, Dying

  "Pope John Paul Assails 'Free Love' in Poland". www.nytimes.com. June 05, 1991.

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