"In the end, living is defined by dying."
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"Can I view thee panting, lying On thy stomach, without sighing; Can I unmoved see thee dying On a log Expiring frog!"
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"One of the scandalous things I did was as I read them afterward I would burn them. I loved them, but for practical reasons I had to lighten the load. I burned favorites, like William Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying." There's a whole list in the back of my book. It's me,[Adolf] Hitler, [Benito] Mussolini, and Pol Pot. We're the book burners."
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"You have to keep walking, no matter what. If you don't, it's a living death. You're just standing in one place dying."
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"The mother is not dying exactly, but has reached a point in life where death is a familiar on the staircase."
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"Dying ain't in people's plans, is it?"
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"We wouldnt ever eat anybody, would we? No. Of course not. Even if we were starving? We're starving now. You said we werent. I said we werent dying. I didnt say we werent starving. But we wouldnt. No. We wouldnt. No matter what. No. No matter what. Because we're the good guys. Yes. And we're carrying the fire. And we're carrying the fire. Yes. Okay."
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"Not all dying words are true and this blessing is no less real for being shorn of its ground."
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"Only the dying take pleasure in the details of what the healthy fail to notice."
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"Dying should come easy: like a freight train you don't hear when your back is turned."
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"The death of a child is an incredible tragedy all over the world. Back in 1990, about 12 percent of children were dying before they reached the age of 5."
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"The hollow horn plays wasted words, proves to warn that he not busy being born is busy dying."
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"If I'm okay with dying, my son is at least as enlightened as that. If I'm okay with my cancer, my son is at least as enlightened as I am."
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"Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre."
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"Dying is almost the least spiritual of our acts, more strictly carnal even than the act of love. There are Death Agonies that are like the strainings of the Costive at stool."
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"The worst that happened to men of science was that Galileo suffered an honorable detention and a mild reproof, before dying peacefully in his bed."
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"I've reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, I can't do anything to change events anyway."
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"Dying is the most hellishly boresome experience in the world! Particularly when it entails dying of 'natural causes'."
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"We are fastened to a dying animal."
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"I suppose I was dying again, so I asked the Lord of Permanent Affection for the strength to live the day. Clearly, the answer came in the affirmative." "I didn't know there was such a Fellow," Buttercup said. "Neither did I, in truth, but if He didn't exist, I didn't much want to either."
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