Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

Vladimir Nabokov

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Topic

Mystery of death Life and death Death

Speaker

John Shade

Author

Vladimir Nabokov

Source

Pale Fire

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1962 1960s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

Russia Europe

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Nabokov, Vladimir. Pale Fire. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1962.

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Even if it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, go on out and sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures; sweep streets like Handel and Beethoven composed music; sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry; (Go ahead) sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will have to pause and say, "Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well."

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Topic
Doing a good job Vocation
Speaker
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Medium
Sermon
Language
English
Time
1967 1960s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

King, Martin Luther, Jr. "The Three Dimensions of a Complete Life." 9 April 1967, New Convenant Baptist Church, Chicago, IL, USA. Sermon.

Another quote about Death

Death is the side of life which is turned away from us.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Topic
Mystery of death Death

Author

Rainer Maria Rilke
Medium
Letter
Language
German
Time
1925 1920s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letter to Witold von Hulewicz. 13 Nov. 1925.

Current Citation

Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1910-1926, translated by Jane Bannard Greene and M. D. Herter Norton. W. W. Norton & Company, 1969.