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  • Thomas Hardy Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.
    Thomas Hardy
    British writer and poet (1840 - 1928)
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  • Samuel Beckett Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
    Samuel Beckett
    Irish dramatist and novelist (1906 - 1989)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Ben Carson Let's let everybody believe what they want to believe. And that means, P.C. police, don't you be coming down on people who believe in God and who believe in Jesus.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Stella Adler Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
    Stella Adler
    American actress and acting (1901 - 1992)
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  • Joan Didion Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.
    The Year of Magical Thinking (2007) 4
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • David Gemmell Life is nothing unless death has been faced down.
    Legend (2011)
    David Gemmell
    British author of heroic fantasy (1948 - 2006)
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  • James Baldwin Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Louise Erdrich Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that. And living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on Earth.
    The Painted Drum (2005)
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Franz Kafka Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.
    Franz Kafka
    Chech German-speaking writer (1883 - 1924)
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  • Lynwood L. Giacomini Like a gardener I believe what goes down must come up.
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  • Pearl S. Buck Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels.
    Pearl S. Buck
    American novelist (1892 - 1973)
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  • Lord George Byron Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Literature must become party literature. Down with unpartisan litterateurs! Down with the superman of literature! Literature must become a part of the general cause of the proletariat.
    Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
    Russian revolutionary leader (1870 - 1924)
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  • Ray Bradbury Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down
    Ray Bradbury
    American science-fiction writer (1920 - 2012)
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  • Betty Smith Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
    Betty Smith
    American writer (1896 - 1972)
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  • Stephen Hawking Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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