"one should be afraid of life, not of death."
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"You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice. Wouldn't you then first discover how much you really trusted it?"
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"In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death."
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"Yes, as my swift days near their goal, 'tis all that I implore: In life and death a chainless soul, with courage to endure."
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"The fight between life and death is to the finish, and death ultimately is the victor . . . I do not deplore the passing of these crude old days."
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"Life and death are one thread."
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"We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life."
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"Given a choice between life and death, choose life. Given a choice between right and wrong, choose what's right. And given a choice between a terrible truth and a beautiful lie, choose the truth every time."
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"There are moments when one feels free from one's own identification with human limitations and inadequacies. At such moments one imagines that one stands on some spot of a small planet, gazing in amazement at the cold yet profoundly moving beauty of the eternal, the unfathomable; life and death flow into one, and there is neither evolution nor destiny; only Being."
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"Revolution, the substitution of one social system for another, has always been a struggle, a painful and a cruel struggle, a life and death struggle."
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"life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis"
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"I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows."
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"And here am I, budding among the ruins with only sorrow to bite on, as if weeping were a seed and I the earth's only furrow."
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"Death is what men want when the anguish of living is more than they can bear."
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"We know the surrealist solution: concrete irrationality, objective risk. Poetry is the conquest, the only possible conquest, of the 'supreme position', 'a certain position of the mind from where life and death, the real and the imaginary, the past and the future... cease to be perceived in a contradictory sense.'"
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"The best of times is now."
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"To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me."
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"The nature of finite things is to have the seed of their passing-away as their essential being: the hour of their birth is the hour of their death."
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"Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?"
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"You are not just a meaningless fragment in an alien universe, briefly suspended between life and death, allowed a few short-lived pleasures followed by pain and ultimate annihilation."
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