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"They say, the tongues of dying men Enforce attention, like deep harmony; Where words are scarce, they're seldom spent in vain; For they breathe truth, that breathe their words in pain."
"Oh, injurious love, that respites me a life, whose very comfort is still a dying horror"
"When Death doth close his tender dying eyes."
"Come my spade. There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers; they hold up Adam's profession."
"Like other systems in decay, the Roman Empire continued to function for several generations after its vitality was sapped. For nearly a hundred years our Island was one of the scenes of conflict between a dying civilisation and lusty, famishing barbarism."
"I don't want to be immortal through my works. I want to be immortal by not dying."
"Life is like a concentration camp... you can't leave without dying."
"Some people want to achieve immortality through their works or their descendants. I prefer to achieve immortality by not dying."
"I don't mind dying... as long as I don't have to be there when it happens."
"I don't want to live forever through my work. I want to live forever by not dying."
"So ... will you stay with me until it's over? Please?" "Kaylee, I would do anything for the girl who granted my dying wish."
"A sob racks my body again, and he wraps his arms around me so tightly I find it difficult to breathe, but it doesn't matter. My dignified weeping gives way to full-on ugliness, my mouth open and my face contorted and sounds like a dying animal coming from my throat. If this continues I will break apart, and maybe that would be better, maybe it would be better to shatter and bear nothing."
"Soon I will honor my parents by dying as they died. and if all they believed about death was true, soon I will join them in whatever comes next."
"Peter: Where are you two going? Tris: Why aren't you with your attack group eating dinner? Peter: I don't have one. I'm injured. Christina: Yeah right, you are! Peter: Well, I don't want to go to battle with a bunch of factionless. So I'm going to stay here. Christina: Like a coward. Let everyone else clean up the mess for you. Peter: Yep! Have fun dying."
"If no one else, the dying must notice how unreal, how full of pretense, is all that we accomplish here, where nothing is allowed to be itself."
"Dying is strange and hard if it is not our death, but a death that takes us by storm, when we've ripened none within us."
"To work is to live without dying."
"I was dying when you came."
"Dying is nothing. What's terrible is not to live."
"And I'm dying to know, is it killing you like it's killing me? And the story of us looks a lot like a tragedy now."
