"The relatives of a suicide hold it against him that out of consideration for their reputation he did not remain alive."
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"I have in my own life merely carried to the extreme that which you have never ventured to carry even halfway ; and what's more, you've regarded your cowardice as prudence, and found comfort in deceiving yourselves. So that, in fact, I may be even more "alive" than you are. Do take a closer look!"
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"If he's alive, everything is in his power! Whose fault is it that he doesn't understand that?"
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"Whatever distinguishes one lump of flesh from another when we're alive, we're all the same once we're dead. Just used-up shells."
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"Why take life seriously? No one gets out alive anyways."
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"Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period."
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"Love is life sharing, not for hurt, Love is alive both not ambiguous. Love is whole life, not an affair."
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"Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time."
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"You can't keep a juvenile moral institution alive on two displays of its sash per year."
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"There is probably no finer prose writer alive in Britain now, no-one better at making a sentence, no-one better at descriptive writing, no-one who can get so close to the vividness of other peoples interior selves."
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"I'd say she's get us both fired, but the I.S. doesn't let anyone go. Alive."
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"Gaily, if you can't demonstrate the ability to keep her alive, then I will take over her care and get you a dog instead." - Newt"
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"Nick as in my former boyfriend Nick. Ex-rat, ex-boyfriend, ex-alive if I ever got hold of him Nick."
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"He pulled her into a tight embrace. There was the sting of tears on her cheeks, but they weren't hers. He kissed the top of her head and murmured something. She didn't hear what he'd said, but that didn't matter. He was alive. Riley wanted to stay in his arms, but..."
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"It's important to be alive in those moment, especially when you're doing something you love to do."
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"Let us live, while we are alive!"
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"When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it's alive; then they have the parts and the'be lost the whole, for the link that's missing was the living soul."
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"And only the very courageous will be able to keep alive the spirit of individualism and dissent which gave birth to this nation, nourished it as an infant, and carried it through its severest tests upon the attainment of its maturity."
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"Deadly emotions, buried alive, never die."
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"This is what those who haven’t crossed the tropic of grief often fail to understand: the fact that someone is dead may mean that they are not alive, but doesn’t mean that they do not exist."
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