"LISTEN: If you ever wondered what you would do if you were alive in the Civil Rights Movement, NOW IS THE TIME to find out. NOW. RIGHT NOW."
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"It had been only through books-at best, no more than vicarious cultural transfusions-that I had managaed to keep myself alive in a negatively vital way. Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books."
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"Both hurting and happiness make me feel more alive, but as I get older it seems that hurting's the low hanging fruit. So I pick it."
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"There is nothing as tragic as being alive and not enjoying life... Life should be celebrated!"
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"Neither dead nor alive, the hostage is suspended by an incalculable outcome. It is not his destiny that awaits for him, nor his own death, but anonymous chance, which can only seem to him something absolutely arbitrary. He is in a state of radical emergency, of virtual extermination."
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"You are alive, so take your life and enjoy it. You were born with the right to be happy, to love, and to share your love. Just to be-to take a risk and enjoy your life-is all that matters."
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"For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject."
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"Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted."
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"You can't be miserable when you're running. It's such a simple and pure way to feel alive."
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"only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn't exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something alive and will himself sound the depths of his own being."
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"Last hopeless chances have got to work. Nothing makes sense otherwise. You might as well not be alive."
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"There is a force that controls all your decisions. It influences how you think and feel every moment you're alive. It determines what you will do and what you will not do. It determines how you feel about anything that occurs in your life. That force is your beliefs."
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"I just look for someone who makes me feel like life is an exciting opportunity and, you know, just like to be alive."
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"My imagination is a kind of animal. So what I do is keep it alive."
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"When we meet an Imago match, that chemical reaction occurs, and love ignites. All other bets, all other ideas about what we want in a mate, are off. We feel alive and whole, confident that we have met the person who will make everything all right."
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"To me the purpose of art is to produce something alive...but with a separate, and of course one hopes, with an everlasting life of its own."
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"A gift that cannot be given away ceases to be a gift. The spirit of a gift is kept alive by its constant donation."
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"No one gets out of here alive."
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"We save the world by being alive ourselves."
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"That is my principal objection to life, I think: It's too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes."
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