"Rebukes are easy from our betters, From men of quality and letters; But when low dunces will affront, What man alive can stand the brunt?"
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"All of our religions but the Judaic and the Greek think more of us dead than alive."
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"I wanted to hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know, whoever I was, I was alive for a little while."
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"I feel more alive when I'm writing than I do at any other time--except maybe when I'm making love."
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"Now, a good education is about so much more than just learning geometry or memorizing dates in history. All of that is important, but an education is also about exploring new things -- discovering what makes you come alive, and then being your best at whatever you choose"
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"But I replied that what made being alive almost worthwhile for me, besides music, was all the saints I met, who could be anywhere. By saints I meant people who behaved decently in a strikingly indecent society."
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"more each particular person is(my love) alive than every world can understand and now you are and i am now and we're a mystery that will never happen again, a miracle which has never happened before and shining this our now must come to then"
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"If 180 million people want to be undead, that’s their funeral, but I happen to like being alive."
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"But I like the feel of men on things, while they're alive. There's a feel of men about trucks, because they've been handled with men's hands, all of them."
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"As long as I am alive, I am fully committed to amity between Tibetans and Chinese. Otherwise there's no use."
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"Some people say, the world can be so alive! It always is, you just do not know it because of the screen of your thinking. You notice it as you become more awake."
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"I love being alive. I like being a human being."
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"Your heart is alive. Keep listening to what it has to say"
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"Once someone asked me, "What do you want to be your epitaph?" So I said, "Paulo Coelho died when he was alive."
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"My aim is to understand love. I know how alive I felt when I was in love, and I know that everything I have now, however interesting it might seem, doesn't really excited me."
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"I cannot lose the one thing that keeps me alive : hope -"
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"Our dreams are our own, and only we can know the effort required to keep them alive."
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"Walking helps me a lot to feel alive, and I do this every single day, my wife and I. We have long conversations about nature, and we also walk silently, just contemplating."
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"There is no cultivation of patience when your pattern is to just try to seek harmony and smooth everything out. Patience implies willingness to be alive rather than trying to seek harmony."
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"It's not a terrible thing that we feel fear when faced with the unknown. It is a part of being alive, something we all share. We react against the possibility of loneliness, of death, of not having anything to hold on to. Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth."
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