"Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else."
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"I tried to tell myself that it could be worse, that the world was not a wish-granting factory, that I was living with cancer not dying of it, that I mustn't let it kill me before it kills me."
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"Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else."
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"Life found itself alive and somehow knew its opposite was death. We are ever being born, or dying, and the thrill of choosing is ours. Only once, must we be born without our own consent. Only once, must we die without our own permission"
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"Dying in a a war never stopped wars from happening."
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"I sometimes feel ashamed that I am devoting myself to artistic pursuits while so many of our people are suffering and dying for us. It's true that fretting never did any good."
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"No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself."
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"For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die."
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"There are five things which no one is able to accomplish in this world: first, to cease growing old when he is growing old; second, to cease being sick; third, to cease dying; fourth, to deny dissolution when there is dissolution; fifth, to deny non-being."
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"I am still in the land of the dying; I shall be in the land of the living soon. (his last words)"
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"I will die if I lose you, but I will die if I wait longer."
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"Even if they try to kill you, you develop the inner conviction that there are some things so precious, some things so eternally true that they are worth dying for. And if a person has not found something to die for, that person isn't fit to live!"
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"We only got 86 400 seconds in a day to turn it all around or throw it all away. We gotta tell ‘em that we love ‘em while we got the chance to say.. Gotta live like we’re dying"
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"No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow."
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"I'm more afraid of falling than I am of flying high. I'm not as scared of dying as I am of growing old. Every battle has its glory and its consequence."
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"There's no greater misfortune than dying alone."
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"A man without a heroic bent starts dying at the age of thirty."
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"It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying."
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"The world is the mirror of myself dying."
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"Instead of just getting old and giving up and dying, let's learn to make a huge contribution to life."
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