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I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

I haven't really thought about where to scatter my ashes when the time comes, but I doubt that it would be in space.

That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should be only organized dust.

I love a Dustbuster. You go around, pick up little crumbs, and everything is nice again.

Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.

The profoundly 'atomic' character of the universe is visible in everyday experience, in raindrops and grains of sand, in the hosts of the living, and the multitude of stars; even in the ashes of the dead.

Let my body be delivered to the earth without attention to the place where it lies; nothing should be associated with my dusty remains. Shame on him who draws any attention to a rotted flesh that is already no longer mine: he is worshipping the worms nibbling it.

It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.