"Survival strategy. If you’re not careful, this place will eat you alive, and Kaylee’s like bait for the beasts."
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"If I weren't already dead, I'd be alive with joy."
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"People have (with the help of conventions) oriented all their solutions toward the easy and toward the easiest side of the easy; but it is clear that we must hold to what is difficult; everything alive holds to it, everything in Nature grows and defends itself in its own way and is characteristically and spontaneously itself, seeks at all costs to be so and against all opposition."
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"And these things that keep alive on departure know that you praise them; transient, they look to us, the most transient, to be their rescue. They want us to change them completely, in our invisible hearts, into -- O endlessly -- us! Whoever, finally, we may be."
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"It is not inertia alone that is responsible for human relationships repeating themselves from case to case, indescribably monotonous and unrenewed: it is shyness before any sort of new, unforeseeable experience with which one does not think oneself able to cope. But only someone who is ready for everything, who excludes nothing, not even the most enigmatical will live the relation to another as something alive."
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"I like walking in the pool. That isn't what makes me feel spiritual. But alive."
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"I am astonished at the high prices paid for works by painters who are dead, prices none of them could expect when they were alive. It is a kind of tulip trade, in which living painters suffer but do not profit."
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"It's hard to be famous and alive."
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"Where's the pleasure in bein' the winner if the loser ain't alive to know they've lost?"
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"It was only the other night everything was fine and the next thing I know Im drowning. How many times can a man go down and still be alive? I can't breathe"
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"I’m really alive! he thought. I never knew it before, or if I did I don’t remember!"
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"The dead are all holy, even they that were base and wicked while alive. Their baseness and wickedness was not they, was but the heavy and unmanageable environment that lay round them."
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"To quarrel with the uncertainty that besets us in intellectual affairs would be about as reasonable as to object to live one's life with due thought for the morrow because no man can be sure he will alive an hour hence."
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"Jackson Pollock said once, "I don't really feel that many people in this world are alive." He said, "That's why I like you, Tom. You're alive.""
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"People walked out on Richard Pryor and he's the funniest man alive."
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"When am I happy and when am I sad and what is the difference? What do I need to know to stay alive? What is true in the world?"
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"You will die not because you're ill, but because you're alive."
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"Tweet, tweet, you're alive, you ignorant asshole."
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"I didn't know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for 'em."
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"Language is decanted and shared. If only one person is left alive speaking a language - the case with some American Indian languages - the language is dead. Language takes two and their multiples."
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