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"The specific patterns, out of which a building or a town is made may be alive or dead. To the extent they are alive, they let our inner forces loose, and, set us free; but when they are dead they keep us locked in inner conflict."
"Books are like friends to me. Words come alive on the page."
"The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting."
"Ah, what shall I be at fifty, should nature keep me alive, if I find the world so bitter when I am but twenty-five?"
"To be alive at all is to have scars."
"The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment."
"There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive."
"The world without spirit is a wasteland. People have the notion of saving the world by shifting things around, changing the rules, and who's on top, and so forth. No, no! Any world is a valid world if it's alive. The thing to do is to bring life to it, and the only way to do that is to find in your own case where the life is and become alive yourself."
"Look, I want to love this world as though it's the last chance I'm ever going to get to be alive and know it."
"We are here to love each other. That is why you are alive. That is what life is for."
"If Shakespeare and Michelangelo were alive today, and if they decided to collaborate on a comic, Shakespeare would write the script and Michelangelo would draw it. How could anybody say that this wouldn't be as worthwhile an artform as anything on earth?"
"Everything is so alive, that I can be alive. Without moving I can see it all. In your life I see everything that lives."
"The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others."
"It's a good time for black people to be alive."
"I stay cool, and dig all jive, That's the way I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug In return."
"If we keep our little flame alive, our first feeling of enthusiasm of who we are, without the influence or intervention of others, we will prevail."
"Under your skin the moon is alive."
"Night, when words fade and things come alive."
"Nature seemed to me full of wonders, and I wanted to steep myself in them. Every stone, every plant, every single thing seemed alive and indescribably marvelous. I immersed myself in nature, crawled, as it were, into the very essence of nature and away from the whole human world."
"I come alive in the night time"
