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"A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own."
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"If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party."

"I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens."

"They realized I was alive again, even though I was playing an old, dying sop."

"I could see myself in a white nurse's uniform, working unnoticed for many years and at last dying, unknown, unmarried and unsung."

"Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down."

"You know, I don't mind dying. The thing that pisses me off is that I won't get to be an old man. I was looking forward to that."
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"Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden."


"Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph."


"What they, in their innocence, cannot comprehend is that a properly constituted, healthy, decent man never writes, acts, or composes."


"I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally."


"Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours."
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