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"For the ones who had a notion, A notion deep inside, That it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive I wanna find one face that ain't looking through me I wanna find one place, I wanna spit in the face of these badlands"
"I realize that most of us live on the skin - on the surface - without appreciating just how wonderful it is simply to be alive at all."
"After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive."
"Daring to dream what is deepest in our collective longings is what makes us most human and fully alive."
"The blues is an impulse to keep the painful details and episodes of a brutal experience alive in one's aching consciousness, to finger its jagged grain, and to transcend it, not by the consolation of philosophy but by squeezing from it a near-tragic, near-comic lyricism. As a form, the blues is an autobiographical chronicle of personal catastrophe expressed lyrically."
"When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing."
"You've been put on the world to love the act of being alive."
"Do you qualify to be alive or is the limit of your senses so as to survive?"
"My faith is whatever makes me feel good about being alive. If your religion doesn't make you feel good to be alive, what the hell is the point of it?"
"...she needed to confirm its presence. Like the keeper of the lighthouse and the prisoner, she regarded it as a mooring, a checkpoint, some stable visual object that assured her that the world was still there; that this was like and not a dream. That she was alive somewhere, inside, which she acknowledged to be true only because a thing she knew intimately was out there, outside of herself."
"Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today. -- Mat Cauthon"
"Middle Age At forty-five, What next, what next? At every corner, I meet my Father, My age, still alive."
"Alive without breath, As cold as death; Never thirsty, ever drinking, All in mail never clinking."
"Men can see nothing around them that is not their own image; everything speaks to them of themselves. Their very landscape is alive."
"The concentration camps, by making death itself anonymous (making it impossible to find out whether a prisoner is dead or alive), robbed death of its meaning as the end of a fulfilled life. In a sense they took away the individual’s own death, proving that henceforth nothing belonged to him and he belonged to no one. His death merely set a seal on the fact that he had never existed."
"As long as I was alive, I was something. That was just how it was. But somewhere along the way it all changed. Living turned me into nothing."
"Every day I beat my own previous record for the number of consecutive days I’ve stayed alive."
"Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive."
"A requirement of creativity is that it contributes to change. Creativity keeps the creator alive."
"No, working is what will keep you alive."
