"Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die."
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"In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom."
"We come into the world alone and we die alone. Why, in life, should we be any less alone?"
"No one ever dies an atheist."
"You 'mustn't' nothing in your life. I don't 'must' nothing in the life, just die. It's important, yeah, but I have also a future in front of me."
"After you die, you wear what you are."
"O starry night, This is how I want to die"
"Being prepared to die is one of the great secrets of living."
"It's better to die than to never really have lived."
"If you want to love you must serve, if you want freedom you must die."
"Freedom is something that dies unless it's used."
""What did you do?" I scream. "You die, I die too.""
"You're too important to just... die."
"It requires more courage to suffer than to die."
"Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die."
"If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die."
"I say things that contradict each other, that are in real tension with each other, that compose me, that make me live, and that will make me die."
"I knew I would not live to see the victory which I would make possible. But I would not die before I would make that victory certain."
"I'll Die For Your Sins If You Live For mine."
"We all gonna die, we bleed from similar veins."