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Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: ''You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy watching all your reactions, and steal your secret by involving you in cunning obstructions that halt your normal flow.''
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Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
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Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.
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Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur ''Thou still unravished bride of quietness,'' then I am instantly aware that I am in the presence of the literary.
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Little-minded people's thoughts move in such small circles that five minutes conversation gives you an arc long enough to determine their whole curve.
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Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had?
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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.
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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
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Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition - in having put forth the best within you
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Live like you'll die tomorrow, work like you don't need the money, and dance like nobody's watching.
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Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.
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Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper.
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Live so that you can at least get the benefit of the doubt.
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Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to.
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Live stage is being made as you go along. You feel the energy. There's nothing like a live audience.
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Live with yourself; get to know how poorly furnished you are.
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Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
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Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
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