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“The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.”

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Author:T. S. Eliot

“I tried. I tried to burn that memory of my regret. But I wasn’t dead yet, I was just on my way to dying, and it’s harder to burn memories when you’ve still got life left. When you’re alive you have to learn how to live with things like regret.”

Way Life Stills Left Memories Alive Dying Regret Harder My Way

Book:One For Sorrow

Source: One For Sorrow

“By definition, you have to live until you die. Better to make that life as complete and enjoyable an experience as possible, in case death is shite, which I suspect it will be.”

Source: Trainspotting

“What folly made young people, even those in middle age, think they were immortal? How much better, their lives, if they could remember the end. Carrying your death with you every day would make it hard to waste time on unkindness and anger and bitterness, on anything petty. That was the secret: remembering your dying time, in order to keep the stupid and the ugly out of your living time.”

“I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.”

“It is simply this: do not tire, never lose interest, never grow indifferent—lose your invaluable curiosity and you let yourself die. It's as simple as that.”

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Book:Fair Play: A Novel

Source: Fair Play: A Novel

“If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)

“Living is the challenge. Not dying. Dying is so easy. Sometimes it only takes ten seconds to die. But living? That can take you eighty years and you do something in that time.”

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Book:Looking for Alibrandi

Source: Looking for Alibrandi

“There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.”

“For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.”

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Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.”

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Book:Looking for Alaska

Source: Looking for Alaska