"While they're still alive, people can become ghosts."
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"When our hatred is too alive puts us below what we hate."
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"To be alive is sufficient evidence that we are needed in the world. Otherwise we wouldn't be here."
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"Every day I break my own personal record for number of days I have been alive."
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"Part of the pleasure of being alive is the knowledge that you're not dead yet."
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"And if you should survive to 105 Look at all you'll derive out of being alive. Then here is the best part You have a head start If you are among the very young at heart."
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"Tony Bennett is still giving concerts, still singing. It's keeping him alive. He's in his late 80s now and he keeps going and going. I maintain, God bless him, it's this devotion to duty and working and being in front his audience."
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"One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death."
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"A good civilisation spreads over us freely like a tree, varying and yielding because it is alive. A bad civilisation stands up and sticks out above us like an umbrella-artificial, mathematical in shape; not merely universal, but uniform."
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"The first fact about the celebration of a birthday is that it is a way of affirming defiantly, and even flamboyantly, that it is a good thing to be alive."
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"If the world becomes pagan and perishes, the last man left alive would do well to quote the Iliad and die."
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"I want to cover all areas that can be depicted visually. This ranges from fairytales to attempts to enter the abstract and view oneself as a social outcast or someone struggling to stay alive."
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"G-d is alive. Magic is afoot. G-d is afoot. Magic is alive."
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"The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred millions to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive."
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"You can't get out of life alive."
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"Hate will keep you alive where love fails"
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"You can't grow if you're constantly defined by this collection of frozen moments that you keep returning to. And if you can't grow, you're not alive."
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"Everything here is alive thanks to the living of everything else."
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"If God made poets for anything, it was to keep alive the traditions of the pure, the holy, and the beautiful."
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"All I can do is just do stuff while I am alive and hopefully that track record will speak for itself."
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