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Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to unfasten your belt and look for a fight.

Only in death will I relinquish my belts.

The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive.

Part of the bargain of being alive is that one takes a chance at dying a premature or painful death, be it from violence, accident, or disease.

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

Dealing with death is there forever, really, you know, because we all have to face it.

Life is about surviving loss.

To live is to die.

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.