“You dont have to live forever just live.”

Variant: I don't want to live, I want to love first and live incidentally.
Source: Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald

Source: The Great Gatsby

Variant on aphorism &quot;Study as if you were to live forever. Live as if you were to die tomorrow&quot; pre-dating Gandhi, variously attributed to Isidore of Seville (c. 560 – 636), in FPA Book of Quotations (1952) by Franklin Pierce Adams, to Edmund Rich (1175–1240) in American Journal of Education (1877), or to Alain de Lille in Samuel Smiles&#x27;s Duty https://books.google.com/books?id=33UzAAAAMAAJ&amp;pg=PA363&amp;dq=live+die+tomorrow+learn+forever&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjd3s_2m57MAhWFMGMKHe-sAl8Q6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&amp;q=live%20die%20tomorrow%20learn%20forever&amp;f=false (1881). <br class="br">The 1995 book &quot;The good boatman: a portrait of Gandhi,&quot; states that Gandhi subscribed &quot;to the view that a man should live thinking he might die tomorrow but learn as if he would live forever.&quot; <br class="br">In his 2010 Boyer lecture Glyn Davis (Professor of Political Science and Vice-Chancellor of Melbourne University) attributes the quote to Desiderius Erasmus. &quot;He [Erasmus] reworked Pliny to urge &#x27;live as if you are to die tomorrow, study as if you were to live forever&#x27;. Many students obey the first clause - the best heed both.&quot; <br class="br">There is a similar quote by Johann Gottfried Herder: &quot;Mensch, genieße dein Leben, als müssest morgen du weggehn; Schone dein Leben, als ob ewig du weiletest hier.&quot; [&quot;Man, enjoy your life as if you were to depart tomorrow; spare your life as if you were to linger here forever.&quot;] (Zerstreute Blätter, 1785). <br class="br">Disputed

They Call Me Coach (1972)

To hesitant guards at the battle of Kolin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kol%C3%ADn#Battle, 18 June 1757 <br class="br">Attributed in E. M. Knowles, Oxford Dictionary Of Quotations (5th Edition) (Oxford University Press, 1999) <br class="br">&quot;Kerels, wollt ihr den euwig leben?&quot; Frederick the Great, by David Fraser, Penguin 2000, p. 353 Other versions have it: &quot;Hünde, wollt ihr euwig leben?&quot; (Dogs, do you want to live for ever?). <br class="br">Attributed

Source: Between the Strokes of Night (1985), Chapter 29 (p. 342)

The Book of Positive Quotations By John Cook, Leslie Ann Gibson (2nd ed. 2007), p. 283.
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