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• in coming to terms with the newly dead, I seem to have agitated the spirits of the long dead. They were stirring uneasily in their graves, demanding to be mourned as I had not mourned them when they were buried. I was plunged into retroactive grief for my father, and could no longer deny, though I still tried, the loss I'd suffered at the death of my mother. ... Was it possible ... that one could mourn over losses that had occurred more than half a century earlier?

  Eileen Simpson

  Mother, Father, Grief

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• When I die, I want to be buried in a long long-sleeve black Ralph Lauren dress and brown chunky boots. I want my hair styled like his models, long hair that flows. I also want natural makeup with a light pink lip.

  Nadine Velazquez

  Makeup, Light, Hair

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

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• Your seventh wife, Phileros, is now being buried in your field. No man's field brings him greater profit than yours, Phileros.

  Martial

  Men, Wife, Fields

  Martial (1871). “The Epigrams of Martial”, p.468

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• When we see the many grave-stones which have fallen in, which have been defaced by the footsteps of the congregation, which lie buried under the ruins of the churches, that have themselves crumbled together over them; we may fancy the life after death to be as a second life, into which man enters in the figure, or the picture or the inscription, and lives longer there than when he was really alive. But this figure also, this second existence, dies out too, sooner or later. Time will not allow himself to be cheated of his rights with the monuments of men or with themselves.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Lying, Men, Rights

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• No one has been buried at Mill Road Cemetery in Cambridge, England, for many years, and so the place has a shady, overgrown magic about it.

  Sophie Hannah

  Years, Magic, England

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• The power of life that is buried deep inside you will never rise up until you have become convinced that you're walking the only path open for you.

  Kosho Uchiyama

  Path, Walking, Deep Inside

  Kosho Uchiyama, Tom Wright, Jisho Warner (2004). “Opening the Hand of Thought: Foundations of Zen Buddhist Practice”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

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• The world is wrong. You can't put the past behind you. It's buried in you; it's turned your flesh into its own cupboard. Not everything remembered is useful but it all comes from the world to be stored in you. Who did what to whom on which day? Who said that? She said what? What did he just do? Did she really say that? He said what? What did she do? Did I hear what I think I heard? Did that just come out of my mouth, his mouth, your mouth? Do you remember when you sighed?

  Claudia Rankine

  Thinking, Past, Behind You

  "Citizen: An American Lyric". Book by Claudia Rankine, October 7, 2014.

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• Excellence when concealed, differs but little from buried worthlessness.
  [Lat., Paullum sepultae distat inertiae
  Celata virtus.]

  Horace

  Character, Excellence, Littles

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• In the beginning was the dog the real name of Jehovah is Rover. Adam's rib is buried in the garden

  John Hegley

  Dog, Real, Garden

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• He splayed a hand out over the photographs, trembling fingers not quite touching the shiny surface, and then he turned and leaned toward me, slowly, with the improbable grace of a tall tree falling. He buried his face in my shoulder and went very quietly and thoroughly to pieces.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Fall, Hands, Tree

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.1700, Dell

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• Of how many women might the history be comprised in those few words - 'she lived, suffered, and was buried'!

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Women, Might, Few Words

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• Death, whether it regards ourselves or others, appears less terrible in war than at home. The cries of women and children, friends in anguish, a dark room, dim tapers, priests and physicians, are what affect us the most on the death-bed. Behold us already more than half dead and buried.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Death, Children, War

  Henry HOME (Lord Kames.) (1789). “Introduction to the Art of Thinking. Fourth edition, enlarged, etc”, p.46

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• We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.

  Tom Waits

  Happiness, Confused, Knowledge

  Interview "All Songs Considered", NPR, May 20, 2008.

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• The mammalian brain evolved exquisite place memory because that was essential for survival. This is why squirrels have such a good memory for where they buried their nuts.

  Daniel Levitin

  Memories, Squirrels, Nuts

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• ‎Our ancestors took this land. They took it and made it and held it. We do not give up what our ancestors gave us. They came across the sea and they fought here, and they built here and they're buried here. This is our land, mixed with our blood, strengthened with our bone. Ours!

  Bernard Cornwell

  Giving Up, Blood, Sea

  Bernard Cornwell (2009). “The Last Kingdom (The Last Kingdom Series, Book 1)”, p.16, HarperCollins UK

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• What actually happens when you die is that your brain stops working and your body rots, like Rabbit did when he died and we buried him in the earth at the bottom of the garden. And all his molecules were broken down into other molecules and they went into the earth and were eaten by worms and went into the plants and if we go and dig in the same place in 10 years there will be nothing exept his skeleton left. And in 1,000 years even his skeleton will be gone. But that is all right because he is a part of the flowers and the apple tree and the hawthorn bush now.

  Mark Haddon

  Flower, Garden, Skeletons

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• Many times man lives and dies between his two eternities: that of race and that of Soul... A brief parting from those dear is the worst man has to fear... Though grave diggers' toil is long... They but thrust their buried men back in the human mind again.

  William Butler Yeats

  Karma, Men, Race

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• In the dust where we have buried the silent races and their abominations we have buried so much of the delicate magic of life.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Race, Dust, Civilization

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• If there is confusion in your head and in your heart, what more do you want! A man who no longer loves and no longer errs should have himself buried straight away.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Heart, Men, Should Have

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1964). “Goethe : [selected Verse]”

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• What a host of little incidents, all deep-buried in the past -- problems that had once been urgent, arguments that had once been keen, anecdotes that were funny only because one remembered the fun. Did any emotion really matter when the last trace of it had vanished from human memory; and if that were so, what a crowd of emotions clung to him as to their last home before annihilation? He must be kind to them, must treasure them in his mind before their long sleep.

  James Hilton

  Fun, Memories, Home

  Henry Williamson, James Hilton, Charles Nordhoff (1939). “Novel and story: a book of modern readings”

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• As we talked, I had the sense of uncovering something precious and long-buried, fully formed. Our conversation was a process of removing layers, some of them easily dusted away. Other layers, requiring chisels or axes, were left alone for now. We revealed as much as we dared about what had happened during the years that separated us. But it wasn't what I had expected, being with Hardy again. There was something in me that remained stubbornly locked away, as if I were afraid to let out the emotion I had harbored for so long.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Axes, Years, Long

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.558, St. Martin's Press

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• Truth is buried, deep inside of men, sweep away each day.

  Dawud Wharnsby Ali

  Men, Each Day, Truth Is

  "Song: 'The Last Tea Song' ('Blue Walls and The Big Sky')". 1995.

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• I do not propose to be buried until I am dead.

  Daniel Webster

  Propose

  "Palin’s “Role of the Vice President” Gaffe: An Historical Perspective" by Chris Rodda, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 13, 2008.

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• One of the greatest possible sins would be to return to God the life which he has given us with our abilities undiscovered and our talents undeveloped an unutilized. One of Jesus most bitter rebukes was given to him who buried his talents in the ground.

  Sterling W Sill

  Jesus, Would Be, Return

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• When something really hits me, it makes me want to either jump off something really high or lie down and be buried. I want people to get hit and caught by my music.

  Florence Welch

  Lying, People, Want

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