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outlive

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To live beyond, or longer than; to survive.

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I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it. Don DeLillo

Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards. Lois McMaster Bujold

Longevity, for a columnist, is a simple proposition: Once you start, you don't stop. You do it until you die or can no longer put a sentence together. It has always been my intention to die at my desk, although my most cherished ambition is to outlive the estate tax. Charles Krauthammer

I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar. Jean-Paul Sartre

If you hate your parents, the man or the establishment, don't show them up by getting wasted and wrapping your car around a tree. If you really want to rebel against your parents, out-learn them, outlive them, and know more than they do. Henry Rollins

How small a thing outlives a man. Cf. the Scottish: It is a small thing that does not outlive a man. Irish Proverb

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