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.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
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.
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.
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.
How small a thing outlives a man. Cf. the Scottish: It is a small thing that does not outlive a man.