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• Beauty is but a flower Which wrinkles will devour; Brightness falls from the air; Queens have died young and fair; Dust hath… — Thomas Nashe
• Maybe when your mother died young, you became instantly old. — Naomi Shihab Nye
• In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived. — Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
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• A poetess who had died young of cancer had said in one of her poems that for her, on sleepless nights, 'the… — Yasunari Kawabata
• We need a Napoleon. An Alexander. Except that Napoleon lost in the end, and Alexander flamed out and died young. We need… — Orson Scott Card
• My God died young. Theolatry i found Degrading, and its premises, unsound. No free man needs God; but was I free? — Vladimir Nabokov
• Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• Teach him to live rather than to avoid death: life is not breath, but action, the use of our senses, our mind,… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• My Bubbie lived to 104, which is probably a little too old to consider a ripe old age, because she had already… — Gilbert Gottfried
• Steve McQueen without hair? It's a blessing he died young. — Dr Gregory House

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