Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over... Death is not anything... death is not... It's the absence of presence, nothing more... the endless time of never coming back... a gap you can't…

Quote by Tom Stoppard

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Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic...

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic...

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.

The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.

Life in a box is better than no life at all ... I expect.

Life in a box is better than no life at all ... I expect.

The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe...

The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe...

Life in a box is better than no life at all ... I expect.

Life in a box is better than no life at all ... I expect.

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had...

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had...

Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.

Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.

Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over......

Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over......

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it...

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it...

James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice...

James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice...

It's better to be quotable than to be honest.

It's better to be quotable than to be honest.

Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.

Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.

Eternity's a terrible thought

Eternity's a terrible thought

A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from...

A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from...

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake,...

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake,...

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

And straightway the damsel arose, and walked; for she was of the age of twelve...

And straightway the damsel arose, and walked; for she was of the age of twelve...

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing...

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing...