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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I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.
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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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Die Verehrung mächtiger unsichtbarer Wesen, welche dem hülflosen Menschen durch die natürliche, auf dem Bewusstsein seines Unvermögens gegründete Furcht abgenöthigt wurde, …
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Unter allen Völkerschaften haben die Griechen den Traum des Lebens am schönsten geträumt.
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Some of the best auditions I've ever had have been when my agent called and said, 'They want you 20 minutes ago, in an office in Century City, to see you for something.' I'm not sitting there thinking for a week and a half, before I'm supposed to go in front of a network president to do something. That just gives you time to be nervous.
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Compassion is to look beyond your own pain, to see the pain of others.
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The little world of childhood with its familiar surroundings is a model of the greater world. The more intensively the family has stamped its character upon the child, the more it will tend to feel and see its earlier miniature world again in the bigger world of adult life. Naturally this is not a conscious, intellectual process.
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