Alive Quote by Montgomery Clift

“The sadness of our existence should not leave us blunted, on the contrary--how to remain thin-skinned, vulnerable and stay alive?” quote by Montgomery Clift — Download Open image

“The sadness of our existence should not leave us blunted, on the contrary--how to remain thin-skinned, vulnerable and stay alive?”

Montgomery Clift

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If a man don't go his own way, he is nothing.

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Look! Look! If you look really hard at things you'll forget you're going to die.

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Nobody ever lies about being lonely.

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The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom.

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A man should be what he can do.

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

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I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly settle in my mind is, that the end will absolutely come. I hold her hand in mine, I hold her heart in mine, I see her love for me, alive in all its strength. I cannot…

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