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“You can kill the body, Mr. Hands, but not the spirit;” Robert Louis Stevenson, “Treasure Island” - 1883

“Indeed, the law of nature teaches us to kill our neighbour, and such is the practice all over the world.” Voltaire, “Candide” - 1759

“Killing is not nearly as easy as the innocent believe.” J. K. Rowling, “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” - 2005

“A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ.” John Steinbeck, “Travels with Charley” - 1962

“The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people.” Chuck Palahniuk, “Haunted” - 2005

“Would you like me to do it now? . . . Or would you like a few moments to compose an epitaph?” J. K. Rowling, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” - 2007

“Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.” William Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet” - 1597

“Know'st thou not any whom corrupting gold will tempt unto a close exploit of death?” William Shakespeare, “Richard III” - 1597

“But it is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.” Ernest Hemingway, “The Old Man and the Sea” - 1952

“Everything kills everything else in some way.” Ernest Hemingway, “The Old Man and the Sea” - 1952

“To kill, I grant, is sin's extremest gust; but, in defence, by mercy, 'tis most just.” William Shakespeare, “Timon of Athens” - 1623

“We see the crude and corrupt beginnings of a higher civilisation blotted out by the ferocious uprising of the native tribes. Still, it is the primary right of men to die and kill for the land they live in, and to punish with exceptional severity...” Winston Churchill, “A History of the English-Speaking Peoples” - 1956

“When Tarzan killed he more often smiled than scowled, and smiles are the foundation of beauty.” Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes” - 1912

“I had as well be killed running as die standing.” Frederick Douglass, “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave” - 1845

“Somehow the killing of the giant spider, all alone by himself in the dark without the help of the wizard or the dwarves or of anyone else, made a great difference to Mr. Baggins.” J. R. R. Tolkien, “The Hobbit” - 1937

“Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.” Neil Gaiman, “American Gods” - 2001

“The worst curse on woman is her exclusion from warrior expeditions; it is not in giving life but in risking his life that man raises himself above the animal; this is why throughout humanity, superiority has been granted not to the sex that gives...” Simone de Beauvoir, “The Second Sex” - 1949

“They don’t kill you unless you light them . . . And I’ve never lit one. It’s a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don’t give it the power to do its killing.” John Green, “The Fault in Our Stars” - 2012

“If you would take a man’s life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.” George R. R. Martin, “A Game of Thrones” - 1996

“Trout, incidentally, had written a book about a money tree. It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its fruit was diamonds. It attracted human beings who killed each other around the roots and made very good...” Kurt Vonnegut, “Slaughterhouse-Five” - 1969

“Killing rips the soul apart.” J. K. Rowling, “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” - 2005

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