"It is necessary to meditate early, and often, on the art of dying to succeed later in doing it properly just once."
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"Until I realized that rock music was my connection to the rest of the human race, I felt like I was dying, for some reason, and I didn't know why."
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"Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must."
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"Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born."
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"What makes life valuable is that it doesn't last forever."
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"Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are."
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"Dying is no big deal. Living is the trick."
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"Talent is never static. It's always growing or dying."
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"I love discourse. I'm dying to have my mind changed. I'm probably the only liberal who read Treason, by Ann Coulter. I want to know, you understand? I like listening to everybody. This to me is the elixir of life."
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"That is why we fly from the inner void, since God might steal into it. It is not the pursuit of pleasure and the aversion for effort which causes sin, but fear of God. We know that we cannot see him face to face without dying, and we do not want to die."
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"A man's legacy is determined by how the story ends."
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"Of Orson Welles: It's like meeting God without dying."
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"Everything you cherish Throws you over in the end Thorns will grab your ankles From the gardens that you tend."
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"To bring into the world an unwanted human being is as antisocial an act as murder."
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"Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life."
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"Dying is like making love, except you don't get naseous afterwards."
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"It is worth while dying, to find out what life is."
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"Don't ever be afraid to live. Because though dying is easy when compared to living"
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"The worst evil of all is to leave the ranks of the living before one dies."
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"Birth is not the beginning, Death is not the end."
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