"No one could say how long that life would last. Whatever has form can disappear in an instant."
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"Yes, hope is a strange thing. Peace at last. But at what price?"
"For the last 20 months, I've just been going from one hospital to another."
"Don’t let your life speed out of control. Live intentionally. Do something today that will last beyond your lifetime."
"As in the case of making a mound, if, before the very last basketful, I stop, then I shall have stopped. As in the case of leveling the ground, if, though tipping only one basketful, I am going forward, then I shall be making progress."
"They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey."
"I know simply that the sky will last longer than I."
"The last freedom is choosing your attitude."
"To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away."
"There is always time for another last minute"
"New York is the last true city."
"Wonder Woman was my first love, and now she’s [Charlotte Kemp Muhl) my last."
"The Law of Wonder rules my life at last, ...I burn each second of my life to Love Each second of my life burns out in Love In each leaping second Love lives afresh."
"The Jews looked for a special savior, a messiah, who was to redeem mankind by the agreeable process of restoring the fabulous glories of David and Solomon, and bringing the whole world at last under the firm but benevolent Jewish heel."
"My grandma always said bad things don't last forever."
"First and last follow each other."
"If the poet can no longer speak for society, but only for himself, then we are at the last ditch."
"They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again."
"If we manage to last in spite of everything, it is because our infirmities are so many and so contradictory that they cancel each other out."
"So have your wits about you, and do what you can and dig in, because it might not last."