"Life consists with wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him."
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"A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it."
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"A word I want to see written on my grave: I am alive like you, and I am standing beside you. Close your eyes and look around, you will see me in front of you."
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"Better to not know which moment may be your last. Every morsel of your entire being alive to the infinite mystery of it all."
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"I am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors of my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to know."
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"To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is to be always in no-man's-land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh. To live is to be willing to die over and over again."
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"Do not shoot! I am Che Guevara and worth more to you alive than dead."
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"In the morning it was morning and I was still alive."
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"Society demands conformity at the expense of individual liberty. Let us be for once a non conformist to be fully alive."
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"Most people have turned their solutions toward what is easy and toward the easiest side of the easy; but it is clear that we must trust in what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it."
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"Earth is a place where language has literally become alive. Language has infested matter; it is replicating and defining and building itself. And it is in us."
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"They didn't know why these things were funny. Sometimes you laugh because you've got no more room for crying. Sometimes you laugh because table manners on a beach are funny. And sometimes you laugh because you're alive, when you really shouldn't be."
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"When you die, it will not be because you are sick, but because you were alive."
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"Every day you're alive and someone loves you is a miracle."
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"They only live, who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive."
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"In an underdeveloped society, the first anxiety is of infant mortality. In an advanced one it is to keep alive the aged."
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"The way you eat is inseparable from your core beliefs about being alive. Your relationship with food is an exact mirror of your feelings about love, fear, anger, meaning and transformation."
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"Frank Sinatra was very devoted to what it was he did. At the end of his life, what he had left - there have been accolades, mementos, festivals, superlatives, all that stuff. He's done movies, TV, done this, done that - what he had left was a love of his audience, and that kept him alive."
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"We are only alive to the degree that we can let ourselves be moved."
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"Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true."
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