“the same question arose in every soul: "For what, for whom, must I kill and be killed?"… p982”

— Leo Tolstoy , book War and Peace

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Russian writer 1828–1910

Arnold Ridley (1896–1984) Playwright, actor

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“I must get back my soul from you; I am killing my flesh without it.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

Draft of letter to Richard Sassoon (1956-03-01)
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000)
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“It is the same thing: killing, dying, it is the same thing: one is just as alone in each. He is lucky, he will only die once. As for me, for ten days I have been killing him at every minute.”

Jean Paul Sartre Dirty Hands

Hugo to Jessica, on his plans to kill Hoederer, Act 5, sc. 2
Dirty Hands (1948)

“The killer of souls does not kill a hundred souls. He kills his own soul a hundred times.”

Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet

El matador de almas no mata cien almas; mata una alma sola, cien veces.
Voces (1943)

“The Italians must allow us to slaughter the Momands, because, if we do not kill the warlike hillmen, they will kill us. And we must allow the Italians to slaughter the Danakils for the same reason.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

Quote about Italy’s 1935 invasion of Ethiopia in Socialism and Superior Brains: The Political Thought of Bernard Shaw by Gareth Griffith (1993) p. 267.
1920s

“You must not take out your sword because if you try to kill someone, you must die for it yourself. What you must do instead is kill yourself, kill your own mind.”

Taisen Deshimaru (1914–1982) Japanese Buddhist monk

As quoted in A Galaxy Not So Far Away : Writers and Artists on Twenty-five Years of Star Wars (2002) by Glenn Kenny, p. 99

“Kill the gringo. What I mean is we must kill the gringo economically and politically but not necessarily physically unless, of course, the worst comes to the worst.”

José Ángel Gutiérrez (1944) American academic

page 10523 of HOUSE OF REPRESE.NTATIVES-Monday, April 28, 1969. This is on page 27/99 of the part 8-5 PDF https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GPO-CRECB-1969-pt8/pdf/GPO-CRECB-1969-pt8-5.pdf ( archive http://archive.is/753l4). According to Behnken this was said "a few weeks later" to clarify the preceding MAYO rally quote. Gonzalez describes it as "Last Tuesday, at Kingsville" indicating it was said 22 April 1969.

“You can kill my body, but you can't kill my soul. My soul will live forever!”

Huey P. Newton (1942–1989) Co-founder of the Black Panther Party

Last words, quoted in Hugh Pearsons (1994) The Shadow of the Panther, p. 315

“Today I have so much to do:
I must kill memory once and for all,
I must turn my soul to stone,
I must learn to live again—
Unless …”

Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) Russian modernist poet

Translated by Judith Hemschemeyer from Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova (1989)
Requiem; 1935-1940 (1963; 1987), The Sentence
Context: Today I have so much to do:
I must kill memory once and for all,
I must turn my soul to stone,
I must learn to live again—
Unless... Summer's ardent rustling
Is like a festival outside my window.

“Muses had a way of killing those whom they inspired.”

Katherine Neville book The Eight

Source: The Eight

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