Beauty
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“I'd rather die while I'm living than live while I'm dead.”
“Good! Fuck him. I couldn’t be happier that he’s dead.”
On the death of Andrew Breitbart, The Rolling Stones, Andrew Breitbart: Death of a Douche, March 1 2012
“The human soul needs beauty more than bread.”
As quoted in Jean Dubuffet, Works, writings Interviews, ed. Valerie da Costa and Fabrice Hergott; Ediciones Polígrafa, Barcelona 2006, p. 14
1960-70's, Prospectus et tous écrits suivants, 1967
“I do not need my freedom when I’m dead.
I cannot live on tomorrow’s bread.”
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)
Context: I tire so of hearing people say,
Let things take their course.
Tomorrow is another day.
I do not need my freedom when I’m dead.
I cannot live on tomorrow’s bread.
Source: Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control
“Seven cities claimed blind Homer, dead,
Through which blind Homer, living, begged his bread.”
Vergil in Averno (1987)
“For he who lives more lives than one
More deaths than one must die.”
Pt. III, st. 22
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)
Source: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems
August or September 1875, page 222
John of the Mountains, 1938
