"She would have liked not to be alive, or to be always asleep."
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"The fact is, art is alive. It's moving around. It's alive."
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"When you forget to eat, you know you're alive."
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"Epitaphs are cheap, and they do a poor chap a world of good after he is dead, especially if he had hard luck while he was alive. I wish they were used more."
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"Objects should not touch because they are not alive. You use them, put them back in place, you live among them: they are useful, nothing more. But they touch me, it is unbearable. I am afraid of being in contact with them as though they were living beasts."
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"What a blessed if painful thing, this business of being alive."
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"We're all seeking...the rapture of being alive."
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"I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us."
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"I want to make people feel intensely alive. I'd rather have them against me than indifferent."
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"I'll get out of this city alive, even if it kills me!"
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"My experience of emptiness is that it is alive with the possibility of everything waiting to be born"
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"It's a miracle that David Bowie, Lou Reed and Iggy Pop are actually still alive today, given how hard they lived."
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"I am here and I'm alive. That's enough."
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"John Lee Hooker is the funkiest man alive"
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"I picked up a man from the street, and he was eaten up alive from worms. Nobody could stand him, and he was smelling so badly. I went to him to clean him, and he asked, 'Why do you do this?' I said, 'Because I love you.'"
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"Alive or dead, the truth won't rest. Rise up while you can."
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"What's the point of being alive," she said, "if you're not going to communicate?"
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"I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive."
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"...when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist."
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"No matter what, I want to continue living with the awareness that I will die. Without that, I am not alive."
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