"Labour as long liu'd, pray as even dying. [Labor as long-lived, pray as ever dying.]"
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"Ivan Ilych saw that he was dying, and he was in continual despair. In the depth of his heart he knew he was dying, but not only was he not accustomed to the thought, he simply did not and could not grasp it. The syllogism he had learnt from Kiesewetter's Logic: "Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal," had always seemed to him correct as applied to Caius, but certainly not as applied to himself. That Caius - man in the abstract - was mortal, was perfectly correct, but he was not Caius, not an abstract man, but a creature quite, quite separate from all others."
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"We're setting up mechanisms where we can kill human beings with drones and missiles where you're sitting at a console and pressing the button. We never have to hear their whimpering, or hear them begging for their mother, or dying in horrible realities around us. I don't know if that's necessarily such a good thing."
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"We'll need to make a litter to carry him," said Osha. "No use," said Luwin. "I'm dying, woman." "You can't," said Rickon angrily. "No you can't." Beside him, Shaggydog bared his teeth and growled. The maester smiled. "Hush now, child, I'm much older than you. I can . . . die as I please."
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"It is true that I am carrying out various methods of treatment recommended by doctors and dentists in the hope of dying in the remote future in perfect health."
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"Mortality has its compensations; one is that all evils are transitory, another that better times may come."
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"What right does the US have to do anything in Colombia? Does Colombia have the right to bomb North Carolina? There are more Colombians dying from tobacco than Americans dying from heroin."
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"I feel here that this time they have succeeded."
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"What? Corpus. Body. Corpse. Good idea the Latin. Stupifies them first. Hospice for the dying. They don't seem to chew it; only swallow it down."
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"Of all the men who were said to be my contemporaries, it seemed to me that John Brown was the only one who had not died."
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"I have heard a good many pretend that they are going to die; or that they have died, for aught that I know. Nonsense! I'll defy them to do it. They have n't got life enough in them.... Only half a dozen or so have died since the world began."
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"I'll sleep well tonight"
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"You can't get out of life alive."
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"I'm delirious because I'm dying so fast."
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"We should turn our death into a celebration, even if only out of a malice towards life: towards the woman who wants to leave--us!"
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"Fear of death is worse than dying."
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"Hearing that I'd come so close to dying should've terrified me, but all I could muster up was a weary "This day sucks."
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"All i want to make sure of is that she's doing something she loves. watch your kids when they sit down and absolutely get lost in something. maybe that's what they should be doing-the thing they're dying to do all the time."
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"It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations."
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"I don't think you're dying," I said. "I think you've just got a touch of cancer. He smiled. Gallows humor."
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