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1 " The moon hung over the planet Earth, a dead thing over a dying thing. "
― John Fowles
2 " Every man becomes the image of the God he adores.He whose worship is directed to a dead thing becomes dead.He who loves corruption rots.He who loves a shadow becomes, himself, a shadow. He who loves things that must perish lives in dread of their perishing. "
― Thomas Merton , No Man Is an Island
3 " To have touched the feet of Christ is no excuse for mistakes in punctuation.If a man writes well only when he's drunk, then I'll tell him: Get drunk. And if he says that it's bad for his liver, I'll answer: What's your liver? A dead thing that lives while you live, whereas the poems you write live without while. "
― Fernando Pessoa , The Book of Disquiet
4 " Nothing is ever finished and done with in this world. You may think a seed was finished and done with when it falls like a dead thing into the earth "
5 " A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it. "
