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«From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.»
«I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.»
Author: Jack London
(Novelist, Writer)
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«Do you think my mind is maturing late,Or simply rotted early?»
«When you're green, your growing. When you're ripe, you rot.»
«If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people / including me / would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.»
Author: Hunter S. Thompson
(Author, Journalist)
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«There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them»
«This unstable mind cannot be held steady. Attached to duality, it wanders in the ten directions. It is a poisonous worm, drenched with poison, and in poison it rots away.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
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«May his pernicious soulRot half a grain a day!»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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«'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven; And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot; And thereby hangs a tale»
«You mellow too much you ripen and rot»
Author: Woody Allen
(Actor, Author, Film Director, Screenwriter)
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