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Cummings' career as a writer - and a painter - was as wobbly as his love life. He tried his hand at playwriting, satirical essays, and even a dance scenario for Lincoln Kirsten.
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Curiosity ... endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.
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Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom.
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Custom, then, is the great guide of human life.
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Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.
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Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.
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Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.
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Death hath so many doors to let out life.
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Death is a million times preferable to ten more days of this life
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Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.
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Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.
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Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
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Death is not the ultimate tragedy in life. The ultimate tragedy is to die without discovering the possibilities of full growth.
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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.
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Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.
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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet
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Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.
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