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• Artists die twice. First creatively. Then physically. The second one is the easiest.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Creativity, Artist, Firsts

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• Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always seem untimely.

  James A. Baldwin

  Death, Institutions, Cases

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• Let a man nobly live or nobly die.

  Sophocles

  Men, Nobility

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers”, p.36, University of Chicago Press

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• Better to die, and sleep
  The never-waking sleep, than linger on
  And dare to live when the soul's life is gone.

  Sophocles

  Suicide, Sleep, Soul

  Sophocles, “Chorus From Ajax”

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• Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

  Sophocles

  Doe, Reverence, Mortals

  "The Beginning of All Wisdom: Timeless Advice from the Ancient Greeks". Book by Steven Stavropoulos, p. 69, December 15, 2008.

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• All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape.

  Blaise Pascal

  Death, Knows

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.55, Courier Corporation

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• We are fools to depend upon the society of our fellow-men. Wretched as we are, powerless as we are, they will not aid us; we shall die alone.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Solitude, Fellow Man

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't worry about getting old. I'm old already. Only young people worry about getting old. When I was 65, I had Cupid's eczema. I don't believe in dying. It's been done. I'm working on a new exit. Besides, I can't die now - I'm booked.

  George Burns

  Believe, People, Worry

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• Old men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Death, Past, Men

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th ed., 1919.

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• I wouldnt mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Boys, Smoking, Mind

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• No myth dies harder, and none is more regularly debunked by the facts, than the one about international sports contributing to international friendship.

  Alistair Cooke

  Sports, Facts, Myth

  Alistair Cooke (1996). “Fun and Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements”, p.14, Arcade Publishing

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• I'd like to die with my boots on.

  Daniel Berrigan

  Boots

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• If matter mute and inanimate, though changed by the forces of Nature into a multitude of forms, can never die, will the spirit of man suffer annihilation when it has paid a brief visit, like a royal guest, to this tenement of clay?

  William Jennings Bryan

  Men, Suffering, Clay

  William Jennings Bryan (1968). “The Credo of the Commoner”

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• I only hope to do well enough before I die to have a house as big as my rich Uncle Ed and Aunt Carole.

  Pat Conroy

  Uncles, Aunt, House

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• I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Funeral, Fancy, My Own

  Maria Edgeworth (2005). “Tales and Novels”, p.52

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• Live and die in Aristotle's works.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Christopher Marlowe (2007). “Doctor Faustus: Library Edition”, p.174, Broadview Press

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• The right to kill: supposing the life of X ... were linked with our own so that the two deaths had to be simultaneous, should we still wish him to die? If with our whole body and soul we desire life and if nevertheless without lying, we can reply 'yes'> then we have the right to kill.

  Simone Weil

  Lying, Rights, Two

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.86, Psychology Press

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• There is a time to live, a time to die, a time to laugh, and at no time are the three of them very far apart.

  Spike Milligan

  Time, Laughing, Three

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• Perhaps the best proof of the Almighty's existence is that we never know when we are to die.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Death, Proof, Almighty

  Joseph Brodsky (2013). “Watermark: An Essay on Venice”, p.18, Penguin UK

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• Videogame players essentially choose whether to win the game or to die heroically. There's a certain glory in both.

  John Green

  Winning, Player, Games

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• A really conscientious doctor ought to die with his patient. The captain goes down with his ship.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Doctors, Captains, Ships

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• We should all live as if we were never going to die, for it is the deaths of our friends that hurt us, not our own.

  Gerald Brenan

  Death, Hurt, Should

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• Most creatures have a vague belief that a very precarious hazard, a kind of transparent membrane, divides death from love; and that the profound idea of nature demands that the giver of life should die at the moment of giving.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Sex, Ideas, Giving

  Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “The Life of the Bee: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.97, 谷月社

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• Kerouac and I are not real at all. The only thing about a writer is that he has written, and not his so-called life. 'And we (will) all die and the stars will go out, one after another.

  William S. Burroughs

  Stars, Real, Written

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• The best thing for a man to do is to be born and, being born, to die at once.

  Pietro Aretino

  Men, Birth, Born

  Pietro Aretino (1933). “The Works”

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