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• It is high time for me to depart, for at my age I now begin to see things as they really are.

  Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

  Age

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• Give Dayrolles a chair.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Giving, Chairs

  Last words, in W. H. Craig 'Life of Lord Chesterfield' (1907) p. 343

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• Farewell, my children, forever. I go to your Father.

  Marie Antoinette

  Children, Father, Farewell

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• I'm going now. My time has come.

  Daniel Boone

  My Time

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• I inhabit a weak, frail, decayed tenement; battered by the winds and broken in on by the storms, and, from all I can learn, the landlord does not intend to repair.

  John Quincy Adams

  Learning, Wind, Broken

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• No, it is better not. She will only ask me to take a message to Albert.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Messages, Ask Me, Asks

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• Well, I'll be damned. Oh, this is funny.

  Doc Holliday

  Wells

  "Fictional character: Doc Holliday". "Tombstone", 1993.

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• Goodbye, my friend, goodbye. My dear, you are in my heart. Predestined separation promises a future meeting.

  Sergei Yesenin

  Goodbye, Heart, Promise

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• Ich kann nicht mehr (I can do no more).

  Toni Kurz

  Can Do, I Can

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• I have a feeling I shall go mad. I cannot go on longer in these terrible times. I shan't recover this time. I hear voices and cannot concentrate on my work. I have fought against it but cannot fight any longer.

  Virginia Woolf

  Fighting, Voice, Mad

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• Tape "Seinfeld" for me.

  Harvey Korman

  Tape

  Harvey Korman's last words, 2008.

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• Always remember the last words of my grandfather, who said: 'A truck!'

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Humor, Grandfather

  "E=MO²". Album by Emo Philips, 1985.

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• I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the mass, or rather raising herself from above the mass, she grows ceaselessly and more than a man.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Believe, Men, Growth

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.37, Publishdrive

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• My parents died a long time ago. And you know the sad thing? I still miss them every day. I spent my entire youth fighting with my dad over every little thing and damned if I wouldn’t sell my soul to see him one more time and tell him I was sorry for the last words I said to him. Words I can never take back that should have never been said. So call your mom. No matter what kind of relationship you have with your parents, I swear to you, you’ll miss them when they’re gone. (Kyrian)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mom, Dad, Sorry

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.100, St. Martin's Griffin

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• As exits go, that's a good one." It was pretty hard to have the last word with a vampire.

  Charlaine Harris

  Vampire, Lasts, Exit

  Charlaine Harris (2008). “All Together Dead: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.141, Penguin

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• Marie Antoinette. Her last words were,"Pardon me sir. I did not mean to do it,"to a man whose foot she stepped on before she was executed by the guillotine

  Marie Antoinette

  Mean, Men, Feet

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• I can’t believe Sadie’s going to let me have the last word. Our experience together must’ve really taught her something. Ow, she just hit me. Never mind.

  Rick Riordan

  Believe, Mind, Together

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• Idiot - A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. The Idiot's activity is not confined to any special field of thought or action, but "pervades and regulates the whole." He has the last word in everything; his decision is unappealable. He sets the fashions and opinion of taste, dictates the limitations of speech and circumscribes conduct with a dead-line.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Fashion, Powerful, Decision

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.150, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• At least her last words to him had been words of love. But she wished she'd told him just how much she loved him. How much she had to thank him for, how many good things he had done. She hadn't told him nearly enough.

  Kristin Cashore

  Done, Lasts, Enough

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.230, Penguin

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• She didn't say a work, and I gave up trying, because you couldn't hear either one of us over the shattering noise of hearts breaking and the looming shadow of the last word, the one we refused to say.

  Kami Garcia

  Heart, Shadow, Trying

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• A distinguished man should be as particular about his last words as he is about his last breath. He should write them out on a slip of paper and take the judgment of his friends on them. He should never leave such a thing to the last hour of his life, and trust to an intellectual spurt at the last moment to enable him to say something smart with his latest gasp and launch into eternity with grandeur.

  Mark Twain

  Death, Smart, Writing

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.3459, Delphi Classics

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• Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Funny, Witty, Powerful

  Attributed in "Men of Mathematics" by E. T. Bell, 1937.

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• Let this be my last word, that I trust in thy love.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Love, Life, Lasts

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.433, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• We're blues people. And blues never lets tragedy have the last word.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Music, People, Tragedy

  "35 Who Made a Difference: Wynton Marsalis". www.smithsonianmag.com. November 01, 2005.

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• So little done, so much to do.

  Cecil Rhodes

  Life, Business, Done

  Said to Lewis Michell on the day he died, in Lewis Michell Life of Rhodes (1910) vol. 2, ch. 39

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