"I would have told her then she was the only thing that I could love in this dying world but the simple word "love" itself already died and went away."
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"I keep on dying, Because I love to live"
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"Adrian, the Emperor, exclaimed incessantly, when dying, "That the crowd of physicians had killed him.""
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"During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice."
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"We're all - all of us - a minute away from dying. If you're aware of that, life becomes a little more precious. Also, you have a slightly different outlook. It's not so much "gimme, gimme.""
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"It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life- that is the deepest personal tragedy."
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"Our birth is nothing but our death begun; As tapers waste, that instant they take fire."
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"We are so lonely in life that we must ask ourselves if the loneliness of dying is not a symbol of our human existence."
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"Overly persuasive a woman's ordinance spreads far, traveling fast; but fast dying a rumor voiced by a woman perishes."
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"We're afraid to live, because we're afraid of dying."
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"I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living."
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"Every day is a lie. But you are dying. That is not a lie."
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"Measles will always show you if someone isn't doing a good job on vaccinations. Kids will start dying of measles."
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"Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death."
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"I don't want to say, 'This is where I'm going to be in five years and I'm going to get there no matter what.' I want to leave it open. I'm not a desperate actress dying to star in a B movie in a bikini."
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"Drive your cart and plow over the bones of the dead."
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"All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom."
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"The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt."
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"Dying is the most important moment that exists in any incarnation"
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"Easter was when they nailed Him to the cross. And He never said a mumbling word."
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