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This was Shakespeare's form;
Who walked in every path of human life,
Felt every passion; and to all mankind
Doth now, will ever, that experience yield
Which his own genius only could acquire.
Mark Akenside
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Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Josh Billings
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In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.
Thomas Merton
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Try not to turn your life into a race, least of all an obstacle race.
José Bergamín
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The military is a very cool world to write about. I went down to Fort Benning, Georgia, for military training, and I learned a lot about soldiers and officers and why they joined up and what their life has been like. I also got my butt kicked.
David Baldacci
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No one can conceive the variety of feelings which bore me onwards, like a hurricane, in the first enthusiasm of success. Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. A new species would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me. No father could claim the gratitude of his child so completely as I should deserve theirs.
Mary Shelley
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I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life.
Ernest Renan
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The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.
John Fowles
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Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.
Frank Moore Colby
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Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.
Eugene O'Neill
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The structure of life I have described in buildings - the structure which I believe to be objective - is deeply and inextricably connected with the human person, and with the innermost nature of human feeling.
Christopher Alexander
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All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer — at least the answer for myself. Art is an action against death. It is denial of death.
Jacques Lipchitz
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To make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life.
Lucy Stone
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I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
Stephen Leacock
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The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practise it. Slowly but surely, as they try to extinguish life in others, the light within them dies.
Terry Waite
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"Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality," says one of my favorite Byzantine mystics. I did this when a child; I do it now as well in the most creative moments of my life.
Nikos Kazantzakis
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Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.
Joseph Brodsky
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There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to – if there are no doors or windows – he walks through a wall.
Bernard Malamud
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Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
Jack London
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Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.
Liz Carpenter
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Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.
Franz Liszt
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Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings.
Alexander Smith
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I am gradually approaching the period in my life when work comes first. When both the boys went away for Easter, I hardly did anything but work. Worked, slept, ate and went for short walks. But above all I worked. And yet I wonder whether the "blessing" is not missing from such work. No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.
Käthe Kollwitz
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A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
Jackie Robinson
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The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.
A. J. Liebling
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