“The phrase, "One dies before one has lived."”
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“It was true. Men died and civilization died, but before they died they lived. It was not altogether futile.”
Cold Victory, in Scithers & Schweitzer (eds.) Another Round at the Spaceport Bar, p. 181. Originally appeared in Venture Science Fiction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venture_Science_Fiction, May 1957 <br class="br">Short fiction
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