"Oh, how beautiful it is to be alive - would that I could live a thousand times"
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"When all the suns and nebulae have passed away, each one of you will still be alive."
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"Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive."
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"Curiosity must be kept alive."
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"A venturesome minority will always be eager to set off on their own, and no obstacles should be placed in their path; let them take risks, for godsake, let them get lost, sunburnt, stranded, drowned, eaten by bears, buried alive under avalanches - that is the right and privilege of any free American."
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"From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life."
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"I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished"
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"I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon."
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"Do studies, not pictures. Know when you are licked - start another. Be alive, stop when your interest is lost."
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"Stop worrying, nobody gets out of this world alive."
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"Since I was shot, everything is such a dream to me. Like I don't know whether I'm alive or whether I died. I wasn't afraid before. And having been dead once, I shouldn't feel fear. But I am afraid. I don't understand why."
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"Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be?"
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"The line between lawful and unlawful abortion will be marked by the fact of having sensation and being alive."
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"Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet."
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"Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive But to be young was very heaven."
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"Man is a piece of the universe made alive"
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"There is no governor anywhere. You are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped. If anybody could go into dhyana at will, nobody could be controlled - by fear of prison, by fear of whips or electroshock, by fear of death, even. All existing society is based on keeping those fears alive, to control the masses. Ten people who know would be more dangerous than a million armed anarchists."
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"I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive."
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"If you couldn't tell the difference between what hurt and what didn't, you had no business being alive. You can't have any good times if you can't tell."
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"We wanted to more richly experience why we were alive, not just make a better life, and so people went in search of things. The great thing that came from those that time was to realize that there was definitely more to life than the materialism of the late sixties and early sixties. We were going in search of something deeper."
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