"Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit."

Dying, Existence, Living

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"Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit."

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Mitch Albom, American Writer

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"Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?"

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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Jerry Della Femina, American Businessman

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"And all the winds go sighing, for sweet things dying."

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"The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell."

John W. Foster, American Soldier

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"I'm dying to get back in front of the cameras. I miss it like crazy."

Holly Valance, Australian Musician

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"I'm dying always."

Jessye Norman, American Musician

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"A closed mind is a dying mind."

Edna Ferber, American Novelist

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"There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same."

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"Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen."

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"It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions."

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"I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses."

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"What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil."

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"Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing."

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"There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be."

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"There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements."

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