“Now Tom was - the hell with that, he said to himself. It is something that happens to everybody. I should know about that by now. It is the only thing that is really final, though.
How do you know that? he asked himself. Going away can be final. Walking out the door can be final. Any form of real betrayal can be final. Dishonesty can be final. Selling out is final. But you are just talking now. Death is what is really final.”
Pt. 3: At Sea, Section 19
Islands in the Stream (1970)
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Last line of the documentary film " John Muir in the New World http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/john-muir-in-the-new-world/watch-the-full-documentary-film/1823/" (American Masters), produced, directed, and written by Catherine Tatge.
John of the Mountains, 1938
Source: John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

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“There can be no finality in politics.”
Quarterly Review, 123, 1867, p. 557
1860s

“I'm not going to look beyond the semi-final - but I would love to lead Newcastle out at the final.”
"Sir Bobby Robson: his most memorable quotes," 2009
“We can only know what we can truly imagine. Finally what we see comes from ourselves.”
Source: Woman on the Edge of Time