“Neither alive nor dead; no one lets up, no one wins.”

— Dejan Stojanovic , book Circling: 1978-1987

”Beast,” p. 72
Circling: 1978-1987 (1993), Sequence: “Darkness Is Waiting”

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“Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.”

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“I am twisted with passion – plague on all the girls of the parish! since I suffered from trysts which went amiss, and could never win a single one of them, neither gentle hopeful maid, nor little lass, nor hag, nor wife.”

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Plygu rhag llid yr ydwyf,
Pla ar holl ferched y plwyf!
Am na chefais, drais drawsoed,
Onaddun' yr un erioed
Na morwyn fwyn ofynaig,
Na merch fach, na gwrach, na gwraig.
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“Too unconcerned to love and too passionless to hate, too detached to be selfish and too lifeless to be unselfish, too indifferent to experience joy and too cold to express sorrow, they are neither dead nor alive; they merely exist.”

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Source: Strength to Love

“This heaven will pass away, and the one above it will pass away. The dead are not alive, and the living will not die.”

Thomas the Apostle Apostle of Jesus Christ

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Gospel of Thomas (c. 50? — c. 140?)

“Neither alive nor dead; no one lets up, no one wins.”

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