Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes
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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.
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The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.
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Old habits die hard. I don't like spending money willy-nilly.
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I'm planning to be here forever, but I know at some point I'll probably have to give it up. If you live to 100, there's a very good chance you'll live forever. Because very few people die after 100.
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Anyone can die. Rule number one is don't get too attached to a character, anyone can go.
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When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once.
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When I get up, I have a cup of coffee, surf the Internet, then do a half-hour run.
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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.
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We are bits of energy floating about in various guises, and when we die we rejoin the big cosmic soup of the universe.
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A lot of people are living in a dream world - they want to deny that aging occurs or believe it doesn't have to occur. They'll hold on to this belief until the moment they die. The reality will eventually hit them.
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To retire is to begin to die.
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The minute your parents die, you stop fighting them. I realized the more I changed my face for films, the more I looked like him. I always liked to disguise myself because I was trying to run away from his image. But all that is not worth it.
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You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die.
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I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.
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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.
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Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
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If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.
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In the Senate, where 60 votes are required to do anything important, you have to work with your colleagues on both sides of the aisle.
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Nothing is written in stone. So don't prepare yourself for a long and lucrative career. You might die tomorrow. Your gold holdings might become dust. Just make the music you want to make now and enjoy it.
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'Women have come a long way, of course: we can all be left alone at night now. But sometimes it seems a high price to pay. We can also open the door cheerfully to strangers at any hour, deal with obscene telephone calls and mend fuses.'
Anita Brookner -
I was the one who was always calling people.
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Interviews are good if you want to be an actor because they raise your profile.
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I don't think about commercial concerns when I first come up with something. When I sit down at the piano, I try to come up with something that moves me.
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Es gibt wenig aufrichtige Freunde. Die Nachfrage ist auch gering.
