"music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts."
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"I lost some time once. It's always in the last place you look for it."
"Those that perished in Hitler's gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves."
"Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can't be without."
"I am the last Englishman to rule in India."
"I think I'm like The Beatles - I think each one I've done is better than the last one. And hopefully I'll never make a Let It Be."
"Consider a movie: it consists of thousands upon thousands of individual pictures, and each of them makes sense and carries a meaning, yet the meaning of the whole film cannot be seen before its last sequence is shown. However, we cannot understand the whole film without having first understood each of its components, each of the individual pictures. Isn't it the same with life? Doesn't the final meaning of life, too, reveal itself, it at all, only at its end, on the verge of death?"
"What matters is deciding in your heart to accept another person completely. When you do that, it is always the first time and the last."
"Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America."
"All endeavour calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil."
"Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem."
"We were just killing time, we were young and restless, and needed to unwind. There ain't nothing that lasts forever, forever."
"Nothing lasts forever, so what makes love the exception."
"There is one voyage, the first, the last, the only one."
"Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves."
"If today were my last day, would I do what I'm doing?...If the answer was 'No' too many days in a row, I'd make a change."
"Physiology has, at last, gained control over the nerves which stimulate the gastric glands and the pancreas."
"It is the fashion these days to make war, and presumably it will last a while yet."
"The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth. [Ger., Das erste und letzte, was vom Genie gefordert wird, ist Wahreits-Liebe.]"
"You never know who's going to be in the audience. You never know who is going to be hearing that piece for the first time, and you never know who is going to be hearing that piece for the last time."