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> # Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.

[Alexander Smith](https://quotesby.net/Alexander-Smith)\#12

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## About this quote

What does it mean?Nature disguises the ugliness of death.In plain termsDeath is ugly so nature hides it.What can you take from it?Death is unpleasant but often unseen.

### Where it applies

- discussing death
- observing nature

### Putting it to work

- accepting mortality
- philosophical reflection

### Questions to consider

- Does nature hide death well?
- Is death ugly?

### Another view

Death is not always hidden.

## More from Alexander Smith

1. > Each time we love, We turn a nearer and a broader mark To that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.

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2. > Everything is sweetened by risk.

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3. > We twain have met like the ships upon the sea, Who hold an hour's converse, so short, so sweet; One little hour! And then, away they speed On lonely paths, thr…

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