Ars moriendi ars vivendi est: the art of dying is the art of living.
– Robert Charles Wilson
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- Even Jesus, three days, died. Who is strong doesn’t make the strong. (Même Jésus, trois jours, est mort. Qui est fort ne fait le fort) – Charles de Leusse
- The cat that laughs is crazy. Man who does not laugh is below… (Le chat qui rit est un fou. – Homme qui ne rit est dessous…) – Charles de Leusse
- A kiss is the morning dew which stand up. (Un baiser, c’est la rosée – Du matin qui s’est levé) – Charles de Leusse
- He printed business cards celebrating his shift. They read, ‘Ars gratia pecuniae.’ Translated, it meant, ‘Art for money’s sake. – Kliph Nesteroff
- We are always dying, all the time. That’s what living is; living is dying, little by little. It is a sequenced collection of individualized deaths. – Chuck Klosterman
- Though a living cannot be made from art, art makes life worth living. It makes starving, living. – John Sloan
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- For him, she bends over backwards. It is origami of the heart. (Pour lui, elle se plie en quatre. – C’est l’origami du cÅ“ur) – Charles de Leusse
- We have a thousand possible, but only one is the target. (Nous avons mille possibles, – Mais un seul est la cible) – Charles de Leusse
- The memory of the dead is indeed a good remorse. (Le souvenir des morts – Est bien un bon remords) – Charles de Leusse
- God became man; and the love, woman. (Dieu s’est fait homme; – Et l’amour, femme.) – Charles de Leusse
- When the owl sings, the night is silent. (Quand le hibou chante, La nuit est silence) – Charles de Leusse
- The remembrance of a woman is longer than a tear. (Le souvenir d’une femme – Est plus long qu’une larme.) – Charles de Leusse
- Hitler not from a woman is born, but from the men bitterness.(Hitler n’est pas né d’une femme, – Mais de l’amertume des hommes) – Charles de Leusse
- The kiss is neither returned nor exchanged, because it’s free. (Le baiser n’est ni repris – Ni échangé, car gratuit.) – Charles de Leusse
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- Above the sky, everything is beautiful, but alone. (Au-dessus du ciel, – Tout est beau, mais seul) – Charles de Leusse
- The body is a clothing that suits us for life. (Le corps est un habit – Qui nous va à vie.) – Charles de Leusse
- Body is morning dew that shines to the rise of the hands. (Corps est rosée du matin – Qui brille au lever des mains.) – Charles de Leusse
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- Life is not about living the safer option. Life is about living a life worth living. – Robert Thier
- How do you get free of the damnable books of Romance when everybody else is still living in them? – Robert Anton Wilson
- Never was living beauty so enchanting as a dying Saviour. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- The cost of living is going up while the chances of living are going down. – Flip Wilson
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- I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men. – Richard Baxter
- I wasn’t dying alone. My beloved was dying with me. – Jannat Bhat
- I am dying: it’s a beautiful word. Like the long slow sigh of a cello: dying. But the sound of it is the only beautiful thing about it. – Sonya Hartnett
- Do you think I lie to you?No.But you think I might lie to you about dying.Yes.Okay. I might. But we’re not dying.Okay. – Cormac McCarthy
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- The Society wants us to be afraid of dying. But I’m not. I’m only afraid of dying wrong. – Ally Condie
- Dying in the line of duty is heroic, but dying while unemployed is just stupid. – Tsugumi Ohba