"We must endure our thoughts all night, until the bright obvious stands motionless in the cold."
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"That's the good part of dying; when you've nothing to lose, you run any risk you want."
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"He who is dying of hunger must be fed rather than taught."
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"The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way."
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"You never know what life means till you die; even throughout life, tis death that makes life live."
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"Do you pay regular visits to yourself? Don't argue or answer rationally. Let us die, and dying, reply."
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"I'm dying!" Malfoy yelled, as the class panicked. "I'm dying, look at me! It's killed me!"
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"To rest upon a formula is a slumber that, prolonged, means death."
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"No, I'll repine at death no more, But with a cheerful gasp resign To the cold dungeon of the ground These dying, withering limbs of mine. Let worms devour my wasting flesh, And crumble all my bones to dust:-- My God shall raise my frame anew, At the revival of the just."
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"Most of the time people feel okay. Probably it's because at the moment they're not actually dying."
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"A good companion is one you wouldn't mind dying with."
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"In fact living is dying."
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"And yet still I worried. I like being a person. I wanted to keep at it. Worry is yet another side effect of dying."
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""Surely so many countries can't all be worth dying for." "Anything worth living for," said Nately, "is worth dying for." "And anything worth dying for," answered the sacrilegious old man, "is certainly worth living for.""
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"You can recover from the writing malady only by falling mortally ill and dying."
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"Once you become dedicated to a cause, personal security is not the goal. What will happen to you personally does not matter. My cause, my race, is worth dying for."
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"If a man has not discovered anything so dying is not worth living"
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"Human relations just are not fixed in their orbits like the planets -- they're more like galaxies, changing all the time, exploding into light for years, then dying away."
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"I realized that I had the call to take care of the sick and the dying, the hungry, the naked, the homeless - to be God's Love in action to the poorest of the poor. That was the beginning of the Missionaries of Charity."
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"We are dying, we are dying, we are all of us dying and nothing will stay the death-flood rising within us and soon it will rise on the world, on the outside world."
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