Quotes 121 till 140 of 426.
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History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff well, it might as well be dead.
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Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you entertain illusions. It's a sort of spiritual clap, I should say.
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How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good dead in a naughty world.
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I always remember that I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now, unless I am letting my consciousness be dominated by demands and expectations based on the dead past or the imagined future.
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I did not attend his funeral; but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved of it. [About a politician who had recently died]
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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
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I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.
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I don't care how paranoid and irrational this makes me sound, but I know for a fact that the people of Paris want me dead.
Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe -
I don't know whether the bird you are holding is dead or alive, but what I do know is that it is in your hands. It is in your hands.
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I don't like the idea of killing my fellow creatures in order to eat their dead bodies.
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I don't think anybody should write his autobiography until after he's dead.
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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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I have eyes like those of a dead pig.
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I have made this letter a rather long one, only because I didn't have the leisure to make it shorter.
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I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.
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I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
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I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.
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I refused to attend his funeral. But I wrote a very nice letter explaining that I approved of it.
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I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
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I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not write another word, not even the next letter. I went to bed. Eight o'clock the next morning I was up writing again.
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