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"To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all."
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"Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying."

"It goes back to all of us wanting to be in Hollywood. We're all dying to win an Oscar."

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

"You could hear him, literally, half a mile away when he opened up. He was at his peak then. He was, naturally, dying to get out of the place he was in, and he recorded for us his appeal for pardon to the governor."

"The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying."
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"A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it."

"Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since."

"What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth."

"When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence."

"The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it."

"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."
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