Conrad Aiken Quotes
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It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
Victor Hugo
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Romeo Must Die came at the right time. It was the right vehicle for me.
Aaliyah
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Many incredible artists die before they were famous.
Yoko Ono
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It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.
S. I. Hayakawa
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Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
Pablo Picasso
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The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.
Carlos Castaneda
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People die because they find living too painful.
Malcolm Fraser
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I came to Hollywood determined to follow in Jean Harlow's footsteps, but I was determined not to die young. My hope was to endure. And endure I have.
Mamie Van Doren
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Live fast, die young.
Ed Westwick
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Anyone can die. Rule number one is don't get too attached to a character, anyone can go.
Jack Huston
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To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
Samuel Butler
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To retire is to begin to die.
Pablo Casals
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Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.
Daniel Burnham
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When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going to die one day, and myself too. I had a sort of a philosophical crisis. I couldn't believe that we were mortal.
Lana Del Rey
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When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
Tecumseh
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When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
Samuel Butler
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We like lists because we don't want to die.
Umberto Eco
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At that time I was making the largest salary known on television and I didn't want to see it die because those were the years paying off when I wasn't making anything.
Larry Hagman
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Die Liebe herrscht nicht, aber sie bildet; und das ist mehr!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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There's big granite walls up toward the Argentine border, but the weather's serious, and a lot of the rock is mossy and wet.
Douglas Tompkins
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It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person to reconcile himself to the idea that after all God will not help him
H. L. Mencken
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I dabbled in writing, wrote really bad poetry in high school. I also took a few writing classes when I was an undergrad at Stanford. I was so intimidated.
Jesmyn Ward
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'When you are dead your spirit will find my spirit,And then we shall die no more.'
Conrad Aiken