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That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem.
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That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.
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That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.
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That was where my dream began to take hold, of not havin' to pick cotton and potatoes, and not havin' to be uncomfortable, too hot or too cold. That in itself had driven me to try to find some better way of life.
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That which resembles most living one's life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances of it; and, to render this remembrance more durable, to record them in writing.
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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.
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That winter two things happened which made me see that the world, the flesh, and the devil were going to be more powerful influences in my life after all than the chapel bell. First, I tasted champagne, second, the theatre.
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That's the thing about suicide. Try as you might to remember how a person lived his life, you always end up thinking about how he ended it.
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That's the way we see life: your community is your survival. And if you live in a small community like this, even the people you hate you have as friends.
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That's what I loved about show business, no two days were alike. It's an exciting life.
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That's what learning is. You suddenly understand something you understood all your life, but in a new way.
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The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than they themselves realize.
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The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.
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The agent never receipts his bill, puts his hat on and bows himself out. He stays around forever, not only for as long as you can write anything that anyone will buy, but as long as anyone will buy any portion of any right to anything that you ever did write. He just takes ten per cent of your life.
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The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence: sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.
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The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.
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The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
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The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college; the task is to help him become a self-educating man.
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The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!
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