"When you are strong and healthy, You never think of sickness coming, But it descends with sudden force, Like a stroke of lightning. When involved in worldly things, You never think of death's approach; Quick it comes like thunder, Crashing round your head."

-- Milarepa

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“There are women who take it to the wire. That's what they are looking for, the ultimate confrontation. They want a smack.”
“Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.”
“Because I grew up in Chicago, I didn't have an emotional relationship to segregation. I understood the facts and stories, but there was not an emotional relationship.”
“... we ought to have saints' days to commemorate the great discoveries which have been made for all mankind, and perhaps for all time-or for whatever time may be left to us. Nature ... is a prodigal of pain. I should like to find a day when we can take a holiday, a day of jubilation when we can fÃªte good Saint Anaesthesia and chaste and pure Saint Antiseptic. ... I should be bound to celebrate, among others, Saint Penicillin...”
“I am no longer a criminal. I gave up that practice years ago.”

Source : "Ronnie Biggs's best quotes while on the run" by the Press Association, www.theguardian.com. December 18, 2013.
“And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers - shriveled now, and brown and flat and brittle - to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of men.”
“Until four years ago, in fact, I was absolutely in love with the atom.”
“Writing is like a love affair: the beginning is the best part.”

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