The mind of the writer does indeed do something before it dies, and so does its owner, but I would be hard put to call it living.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.
The novel is always pop art, and the novel is always dying. That's the only way it stays alive. It does really die. I've been thinking about that a lot.
Everything is dead while it lives.
The dead govern the living.
The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.
Much has been written about the life of the mind.
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