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Life is not an easy matter. You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
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Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.
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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.
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Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.
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Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.
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Life is serious but art is fun!
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Life lived amidst tension and busyness needs leisure. Leisure that recreates and renews. Leisure should be a time to think new thoughts, not ponder old ills.
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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, but it returneth.
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Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford.
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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.
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Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
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Life's most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others? Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.
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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.
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Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations.
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Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of.
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