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"Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?"
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Personal Development
"Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying."
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Personal Development
"It goes back to all of us wanting to be in Hollywood. We're all dying to win an Oscar."
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"And all the winds go sighing, for sweet things dying."
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"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."
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"The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell."
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Personal Development
"I'm dying to get back in front of the cameras. I miss it like crazy."
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"A closed mind is a dying mind."
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"Why should I be worried about dying? It's not going to happen in my lifetime!"
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"So not only can you not imagine dying, you can't really imagine existence before you were born."
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"Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide."
Religion
"Very well. He'd lighten up. As a matter of fact, he felt as light as the bubbly froth that flew from the lips of the waves. Whatever else his long, unprecedented life might have been, it had been fun. Fun! If others should find that appraisal shallow, frivolous, so be it. To him, it seemed now to largely have been some form of play. And he vowed that in the future he would strive to keep that sense of play more in mind, for he'd grown convinced that play--more than piety, more than charity or vigilance--was what allowed human beings to transcend evil."
Life
"It's never too late to have a happy childhood."
Optimism
"A person's looking for a simple truth to live by, there it is. CHOICE. To refuse to passively accept what we've been handed by nature or society, but to choose for ourselves. CHOICE. That's the difference between emptiness and substance, between a life actually lived and a wimpy shadow cast on an office wall."
Philosophy
"There was a marvelous, dark lyricism in his voice, the kind of defiance that is rooted in deep loneliness."
Emotion
"Beer does not satisfy magic, however. So the magic ordered a round of Harvey Wallbangers. But it takes more than vodka to fuel magic. It takes risks. It takes EXTREMES."
Fantasy
"The one thing emphasized in any creative writing course is 'write what you know,' and that automatically drives a wooden stake through the heart of imagination. If they really understood the mysterious process of creating fiction, they would say, 'You can write about anything you can imagine.'"
Art
"Often, moreover, it is...that aspect of our being that society finds eccentric, ridiculous, or disagreeable, that holds our sweet waters, our secret well of happiness, the key to our equanimity in malevolent climes."
Self
"True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed."
Philosophy
"Death is impatient and thoughtless. It barges into your room when you are right in the middle of something, and it doesn't bother to wipe its boots."
Mortality
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