“I would die for you. But I won't live for you.”
Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“I am going to die. The person who succeeds me also would die. But elections, you won't have.”
Speech (17 June 1975), quoted in "Las frases para el bronce de Pinochet."
1970s
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