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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• When belief in a god dies, the god dies.

  Harlan Ellison

  Belief

  Harlan Ellison (2014). “Deathbird Stories”, p.6, Open Road Media

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• Men die but an idea does not.

  Alan Jay Lerner

  Men, Ideas, Doe

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• The interesting thing is, while we die of diseases of affluence from eating all these fatty meats, our poor brethren in the developing world die of diseases of poverty, because the land is not used now to grow food grain for their families.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Land, Interesting, Poverty

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• When we die to something, something comes alive within us. If we die to self, charity comes alive; if we die to pride, service comes alive; if we die to lust, reverence for personality comes alive; if we die to anger, love comes alive.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Pride, Self, Personality

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• If I couldn't laugh, I'd rather die.

  Claudette Colbert

  Laughing, Ifs

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• I was no longer, if I had ever been, afraid to die: I was now afraid not to die.

  Joan Didion

  Ifs

  Joan Didion (2012). “Blue Nights (Enhanced Edition)”, p.24, Knopf

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• To learn to die is an heroic work.

  Mercy Otis Warren

  Death, Heroic

  Mercy Otis Warren (1790). “Poems, dramatic and miscellaneous”, p.147

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• I was leftwing, I am leftwing, and I will die leftwing.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  "Professor with a past" by Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2007.

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• When a man dies, his secrets bond like crystals, like frost on a window. His last breath obscures the glass.

  Anne Michaels

  Men, Glasses, Secret

  Anne Michaels (2010). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.114, Emblem Editions

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• Nothing ever quite dies, it just comes back in a different form.

  Lester Bangs

  Different, Form

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We're all going to die.

  Elizabeth Edwards

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• Why will we struggle to attain, and strive,
  When all we gain is but an empty dream?--
  Better, unto my thinking, doth it seem
  To end it all and let who will survive;
  To find at last all beauty is but dust;
  That love and sorrow are the very same;
  That joy is only suffering's sweeter name;
  And sense is but the synonym of lust.
  Far better, yea, to me it seems to die;
  To set glad lips against the lips of Death--
  The only thing God gives that comforteth,
  The only thing we do not find a lie.

  Madison Cawein

  Death, Dream, Lying

  Madison Julius Cawein, “The Land Of Illusion”

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• When Death hath poured oblivion through my veins,
  And brought me home, as all are brought, to lie
  In that vast house, common to serfs and Thanes,
  I shall not die, I shall not utterly die,
  For beauty born of beauty-- that remains.

  Madison Cawein

  Lying, Home, House

  MADISON CAWEIN (1899). “Myth and Romance”

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• I do not want to die being known for doing baby mama DNA tests on my show.

  Ricki Lake

  Baby, Dna, Want

  "Ricki Lake Delivers Maternal Health Awareness" by Eleanor Goldberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2011.

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• I got this feeling I'm gonna die before I get old. I don't know why. I just have this feeling.

  Sid Vicious

  Feelings, Knows

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I am not self-destructive. I am not a person who wants to die.

  Whitney Houston

  Self, Want, Persons

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