"It is not from top to bottom that societies die; it is from bottom to top."
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"Dead he is not, but departed, for the artist never dies."
"Better to suffer than to die."
"You live you die and death not ends it."
"When I die, just keep playing the records."
"A dog's spirit dies hard."
"The envious will die, but envy never."
"Maybe I'll be 48 and die in the gutter in Paris."
"Right down there in the thick of things, we discover the love that will not die."
"To die before one fears to die may be a boon."
"Beauty crowds me till I die."
"I’d rather die than you not be by my side."
"If I can avoid doing stunts, I will. I don't want to die just for a movie. It's not worth it."
"Better to die once and for all, than live in continual terror."
"So what do we do if we get bitten by something deadly?' I asked. He looked at me as if I were stupid. 'You die, of course. That's what deadly means."
"We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus!"
"Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral."
"You won't die, Francie. You were born to lick this rotten life."
"No one told me that you could be alive and be happy. No one told me, and if someone had I wouldn't have believed them. I thought that you had to die - physically die - to escape."
"I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses."