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"It's been months since I last wrote. I've lived in a state of mental slumber, leading the life of someone else. I've felt, very often, a vicarious happiness. I haven't existed. I've been someone else. I've lived without thinking."
"A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born but you can choose how you die."
"The fight will last as long as I allow it to last."
"They took one from us last time, so now we took one from them"
"In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad."
"Longing is all that lasts."
"Mr. Nixon has, in the last seven days, called me an economic ignoramus, a Pied Piper, and all the rest. I've just confined myself to calling him a Republican. But he says that is getting low."
"Every second of your definitionally temporary consciousness, you are choosing how you spend something that will not last forever."
"Remembrances last longer than present realities."
"All of the days go toward death and the last one arrives there."
"'A friend,' he repeated, sentimental suddenly. 'Someone to last your whole life and you his. I suppose such a thing can't really happen outside sleep.'"
"The final aim is not to know, but to be.... You've got to know yourself so that you can at last be yourself. "Be yourself" is the last motto."
"The pyramids of Egypt will not last a moment compared to the daisy."
"I could justify violence only in this extreme case, to save the last living knowledge of Buddhism itself."
"Ah, poor Pole. It's been to much for her, this last bit. Turned her head, I shouldn't wonder. She's beginning to see things."
"For his mind was full of forlorn hopes, death-or-glory charges, and last stands."
"More like the real thing,' said the lord Digory softly. - The Last Battle"
"The last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of the recession because that would just suck up and take more demand out of the economy and put businesses in a further hole."
"I'm especially grateful that they're here at a time when the rest of Ireland is focused on the final round of the Six Nations rugby tournament and the last match of the legendary Brian O'Driscoll."
"He [Barack Obama] talked about deficit reduction. This got me he was talking about how the deficit's being reduced faster in the last 60 years. That's because he's collected more taxes. That's like bragging that you paid your rent after you robbed a bank. It makes no sense."
