“I lived," Dor said, "but I was not alive.”
“I want to be alive again," she said. "Not in this half-life. I want to be really alive.”
“...while I am alive, I intend to live.”
“Everything is so alive, that I can be alive. Without moving I can see it all. In your life I see everything that lives.”
“Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.”
“No matter what, I want to continue living with the awareness that I will die. Without that, I am not alive.”