"I wait for death... and journalists."

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“Every age has its happiness and troubles.”

“I took pleasure when I could... I acted clearly and morally and without regret. I'm very lucky.”

“I had a hell of a lot of will power! A hell of a will power, you understand? And it was very useful to me.”

“I had to wait 110 years to become famous... I intend to enjoy it as long as possible.”

“I have got only one wrinkle, and I am sitting on it.”

“I see badly, I hear badly, and I feel bad, but everything's fine.”

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"What shall we know of our death? Either the soul is immortal and we shall not die, or it perishes with the flesh and we shall not know that we are dead. Live, then, as if you were eternal, and do not …"

— André Maurois

opinion journalism1885–1967

#death

"All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer — at least the answer for myself. Art is an action against death. It is denial of de…"

— Jacques Lipchitz

Science1891–1973

#art

"This rooting out of the Irish people; this transplanting of them from their native home into a foreign land, may be all very well, so far as the young people are concerned; but for the fathers and mot…"

— Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa

Politics1831–1915

#family