Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes
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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
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Seeing death is not as difficult as you might think. What's harder is to see people suffer. It's the people the dead left behind that get to you.
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Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.
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Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
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It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
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Dolphins football has been a lifetime passion for me.
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I lived for nearly seven years with the awareness that death was my everyday companion.
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My mother's belief in spiritual healers grew stronger after our family went through a rough patch following my father's death. Sufi saint Karimullah Shah Kadri changed our lives, and all of us converted to Sufism. But it wasn't an instantaneous decision - it took us 10 years to convert. The change in religion was like washing away the past.
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I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.
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Our law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets the death penalty for those who sell land to Israelis.
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From what I know about alcoholism, I'd say there's nothing romantic, nothing grand, nothing heroic, nothing brave - nothing like that about drinking. It's a real coward's death.
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Fortunately, there is more to life than death. There is for one thing, fiction. A thousand thousand characters to be sent marching out into the world to divert time from its forward gallop to the terrible horizon.
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I touched her thigh and death smiled
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I think Prince was heads, hands and feet about all the rest of them, I thought he left (Michael) Jackson in the dust. Prince was way beyond that. But how pathetic that he killed himself. Don't kid yourself, that's what he did. Slowly, I'll grant you … but that's what drugs and alcohol is: a slow death.
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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
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What do I haveto help me, without spell or prayer,endure this hour, endless, heartless, anonymous,the death of love?
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When women let their hair down, it means either sexiness or craziness or death, the three by Victorian times having become virtually synonymous.
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I have a store full of thousands and thousands of images in my brain. I've got this terrible feeling I'm like some abattoir boss: I know death; I know the cut pieces of the human body.
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I love my body. I take good care of it.
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I think any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it.
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As a general rule, people who flagrantly pretend to anything are the reverse of that which they pretend to. A man who sets up for a saint is sure to be a sinner; and a man who boasts that he is a sinner is sure to have some feeble, maudlin, snivelling bit of saintship about him which is enough to make him a humbug.
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Don't believe everything you think. Thoughts are just that - thoughts.
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It isn't easy to live after death. It takes a lifetime.
