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"No one told me that you could be alive and be happy. No one told me, and if someone had I wouldn't have believed them. I thought that you had to die - physically die - to escape."
"You might as well not be alive if you're not in awe of God."
"It is just as important to make knowledge live and keep it alive as to solve specific problems."
"Life is so fluid that one can only hope to capture the living moment, to capture it alive and fresh ... without destroying that moment."
"After being alive, the next hardest work is having sex."
"It's a great time to be alive."
"It’s a wonder I’m even alive. Sometimes I think that. I think that I can’t believe I haven’t killed myself. But there’s something in me that just keeps going on. I think it has something to do with tomorrow, that there is always one, and that everything can change when it comes."
"I never question the way I write. Writing is the only thing that's without seams for me. It's an effort to talk because my pictures have to be turned into these sounds. It's an effort to be alive. It's work. But writing is wonderful."
"But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive."
"Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it."
"Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive."
"There's place and means for every man alive."
"Lady, you are the cruel'st she alive If you will lead these graces to the grave And leave the world no copy."
"The first time I flew, it was being alive. Nothing was pressing under me. I was living in the fullness of air; air all around me, no holding place to break the air spaces. It's worth everything to be alone in the air, alive."
"The secret of being more vitally alive is to be more aware. Starting today, from this moment, become aware of awareness!"
"We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us."
"Cut these words and they would bleed; they are vascular and alive."
"Van Gogh was so under appreciated in his time, he sold only one of his 900 paintings while alive. Posthumously, he became one of the most famous artists of all time and his work is now considered priceless. Oh the irony."
"I'm only really alive when I'm writing."
"In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of the cat, although in this case there were three determinate states the cat could be in: these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious."
