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  • David Herbert Lawrence Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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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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  • William Feather Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.
    William Feather
    American writer, businessman (1889 - 1981)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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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.
    Source: The Year of Magical Thinking (2007) 4
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Anton Chekhov Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Mark Twain Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Alfred Rosenberg Life drew me and I followed it.
    Alfred Rosenberg
    German Nazi theorist and ideologue (1893 - 1946)
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  • Doug Larson Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.
    Doug Larson
    American columnist and editor (1926 - 2017)
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  • George Harrison Life flows on within you and without you.
    George Harrison
    English musician, singer and songwriter (1943 - 2001)
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  • Virginia Woolf Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how can we generate this imponderable quality most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Abraham Cowley Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Georges Bataille Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love.
    Georges Bataille
    French writer and critic (1897 - 1962)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Barbara Bush Life has changed enormously, and I hope - I hope more people read good things.
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • Bernard Berenson Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.
    Bernard Berenson
    American art historian (1865 - 1959)
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  • Billy Boyd Life in LA is not lying in the sun for months. It is having a 4pm meeting and leaving at noon to sit in traffic for four hours. It's not glam.
    Billy Boyd
    Scottish actor and musician (1968 - )
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  • Brad Stone Life inside successful Web startups - especially the really successful ones - can be nasty, brutish, and short. As companies grow exponentially, egos clash, investors jockey for control, and business complexities rapidly exceed the managerial abilities of the founders.
    Brad Stone
    American journalist (1971 - )
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