"The climbing and soloing aren't worth dying for, but they are worth risking dying for."
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"If you are not growing, you are dying."
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"When you were born the world was smiling, and you cry, because living a life so that you are dying smiled, cried and the world."
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"Death is the ultimate enemy - and I find nothing reproachable in those who rage mightily against the dying of the light."
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"Dying is something you have no control over. Why waste your life being afraid of it?"
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"You don’t understand — there are things worth dying for!"
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"If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you aren't afraid of dying, there is nothing you can't achieve. Trying to control the future is like trying to take the master carpenter's place. When you handle the master carpenter's tools, chances are that you'll cut your hand."
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"If people are not afraid of dying, why threaten them with death?"
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"Tzu Li went to see Tzu Lai who was dying. Leaning against the door, he said, 'Great is the Creator! What will he make of you now? Will he make you into a rat's liver? Will he make you into an insect's leg?' Tzu-Lai replied, 'The universe gave me my body so I may be carried, my life so I may work, my old age so I may repose, and my death so I may rest. To regard life as good is the way to regard death as good. . . . If I regard the universe as a great furnace and creation as a master foundryman, why should anywhere I go not be all right?'"
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"Don't you love nobody better'n you do yo'self. Do, you'll be dying befo' yo' time is out."
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"I like acting for now. But after seeing Apollo 13, what I really want to do is to be an astronaut. I'm dying to go to a space camp next summer!"
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"Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject."
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"That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place."
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"A love affair based on jealousy is doomed from the start ... It is certanly a sign of love, but it's a sign that it's already dying."
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"I think about dying a lot, every time I fall asleep on a train or a plane I expect to wake up to a crash!"
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"Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of nobility."
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"I’m not sentimental about anything. Life flows by, and you flow with it or you don’t. Move on and move out."
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"Telephone message on his manager's answering machine shortly before dying of heroin overdose: I need help bad, man."
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"We just did an awesome job of not dying."
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"That's the mystery, isn't it? Is the labyrinth living or dying? Which is he trying to escape---the world or the end of it?"
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