Logan Pearsall Smith - Life Quotes

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There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

Logan Pearsall Smith
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

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My life is a bubble; but how much solid cash it costs to keep afloat that Bubble!

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How can they say my life isn't a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

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The act of flesh is an unsteady basis on which to build the edifice of life.

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The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consist in nothing more than the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.

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I might give my life for my Friend, but he'd better not ask me to do up a parcel.

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It is a matter of life and death for married people to tell each other's stories; if they didn't, they would burst.

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All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.

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Words aren't always mere words: a few inaudible articulations may fetter two people together for life.

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I think of Space, and the unimportance in its unmeasured vastness, of our toy solar system; I lose myself in speculations of the lapse of Time, reflecting how at the best our human life on this minute and perishing planet is as brief as a dream.

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