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“The life we've been leading couldn't last forever. It's a wonder it lasted as long as it did.” quote by Jack Vance — Download Open image

“The life we've been leading couldn't last forever. It's a wonder it lasted as long as it did.”

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Contradictory precepts that have guided me for as long as I can remember: 1: I will live forever. 2: I will die tomorrow.

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Whole scenes of your life slip away forever if you don't put them down in ink.

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Tonight I feel like a prisoner on fire, waiting desperately... denied, sentenced forever more. Only your love can set me free.

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It all depends on you. You can go on sleeping forever, you can wake up right this moment.

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I do conscientiously and sincerely believe that the Order of Freemasonry, if not the greatest, is one of the greatest moral and political evils…

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There is nothing more I ask of this life than this moment, exactly so. And suddenly forever seems like too short a time.

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I want to do - I want to be putting out classic stuff that's gonna stick and last forever, you feel me?

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