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Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.
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Of that freedom [freedom of thought and speech] one may say that it is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.
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Of the significant and pleasurable experiences of life only the simplest are open indiscriminately to all. The rest cannot be had except by those who have undergone a suitable training.
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Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?
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Oh my son's my son till he gets him a wife, but my daughter's my daughter all her life.
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Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life.
Ardèle ou la Marguerite -
Oh, the secret life of man and woman -dreaming how much better we would be than we are if we were somebody else or even ourselves, and feeling that our estate has been unexploited to its fullest.
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Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
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Old Age: That period in life when we no longer care where our wife is going, as long as she doesn't want us to come along
Reader's Digest, February 1992 -
Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.
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On every side, and at every hour of the day, we came up against the relentless limitations of pioneer life.
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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On occasions, after drinking a pint of beer at luncheon, there would be a flow into my mind with sudden and unaccountable emotion, sometimes a line or two of verse, sometimes a whole stanza, accompanied, not preceded by a vague notion of the poem which they were destined to form a part of... I say bubble up because, so far as I could make out, the source of the suggestions thus proffered to the brain was the pit of the stomach.
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On telly, there's been a move towards entertainment - with some very high-powered, fast-moving dramas. Then we have the Internet, where we get our information but it's all in bite-size pieces. I think the documentary, as a form, actually speaks to what's missing.
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On the contrary, the characteristic element of the present situation is that economic questions have finally and irrevocably invaded the domain of public life and politics.
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On the day my daughter was born, I started writing a book for her. The plan was that, over the course of her life, I'd fill it with advice on how to be a strong woman. But along the way, I got caught up in the stories of Amelia Earhart, Sally Ride, and so many others. So how do you pick the best heroes for your kids?
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On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
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On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.
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