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If I had my will I would live in a ship on the sea, and never come nearer to humanity than that!

— Eleonora Duse

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.

— Pablo Picasso

I would like to leave the world a better place than when I entered it. I would hope that by the time I die I could have learned from the years of living and hand something down.

— Albert Hammond, Jr.

Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.

— Seneca

Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.

— Walt Whitman

The world is independent of my will.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

I'd like to be the last person alive in the world! Yes, I'd like to know what happens.

— Vivienne Westwood

I'd love to have a proper sailing boat and go around the world.

— Jonathan Powell

Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die?

— George Borrow

✗Opposing Perspectives

I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.

— Edith Piaf

Not one foot will I fly, so long as breath bides within my breast; for, by Him that shaped both sea and land, this day shall end my battles or my life. I will die King of England.

— Richard III of England