“Everyone always dies for his country. If you have lived in it, well and wisely and actively, you die for it too.”
Tiger at the Gates (1935)
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French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright 1882–1944Related quotes

“Redeemers always reach the world too late.
God dies, we live; God lives, we die. Our fate.”
"A Tale of Two Pieties", in The Chair of Babel (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992) p. 51.

“You too are going to die, and that’s because you too were fortunate enough to have lived.”
Source: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck (2016), Chapter 9, “...And Then You Die” (p. 208)

“You have no birthday because you have always lived; you were never born, and never will die.”
There's No Such Place As Far Away (1978)
Context: You have no birthday because you have always lived; you were never born, and never will die. You are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow-adventurer on a bright journey to understand the things that are.