"And now, I am dying beyond my means. (Said while sipping champagne on his deathbed.)"
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"The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out."
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"The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had."
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"Things change after you die, though, I guess because dying is the loneliest thing you can do."
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"The act of dying is one of the acts of life."
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"Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily."
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"War is death's feast."
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"O Time with your teethy years! You swallow up all things little by little in a slow-motion, wrinkling process of dying."
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"We are ever dying to one world and being born into another."
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"Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free."
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"Anything which is a living and not a dying body... will have to be an incarnate will to power, it will strive to grow, spread, seize, become predominant - not from any morality or immorality but because it is living and because life simply is will to power... 'Exploitation'... belongs to the essence of what lives, as a basic organic function; it is a consequence of the will to power, which is after all the will to life."
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"That which is so universal as death must be a benefit."
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"All say, ‘how hard it is that we have to die’ -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those who have had to live."
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"I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead."
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"Most of us are frightened of dying because we don't know what it meant to live.We don't know how to live,therefore we don't know how to die"
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"The spectator is a dying animal."
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"Come my little one, and give me your hand."
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"When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror."
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"Things have a terrible permanence when people die."
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"One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live."
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