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  • Confucius Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • John Irving Life is serious but art is fun!
    The Hotel New Hampshire (1986)
    John Irving
    American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter (1942 - )
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  • Josh Billings Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Yann Martel Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance.
    Het leven van Pi p.18
    Yann Martel
    Canadian author (1963 - )
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  • John Wayne Life is tough, but it's tougher if you're stupid.
    John Wayne
    American actor and filmmaker (1907 - 1979)
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  • Publilius Syrus Life itself is short, but lasts longer than misfortunes.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley 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.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Sir John Robert Seeley Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.
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  • Søren Kierkegaard Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Jane Austen Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Quentin Crisp Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Oscar Wilde Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • George Burns Life's but a day at most.
    George Burns
    American Comedy Actor (1896 - 1996)
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  • Franz Kafka 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.
    Franz Kafka
    Chech German-speaking writer (1883 - 1924)
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  • Boris Pasternak Like a beast in a pen, I'm cut off
    From my friends, freedom, the Sun.
    But the hunters are gaining ground;
    I've nowhere else to run.
    Selected Poems (1983)
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Buddha Like a beautiful flower full of color, but without scent, are the fine but fruitless words of him who does not act accordingly.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Carlisle Floyd Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations.
    Carlisle Floyd
    American opera composer
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  • Beau Willimon Like any young person who gets into a political campaign, I joined out of a highfalutin' desire to change the world. But you start to see the sort of tactics people use. You start to see politics not only in the macro but in the micro of the campaign itself. Some people get turned off by this side of it. Other people are drawn to it.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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  • Robert Burton Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
    Robert Burton
    English clergyman and writer (1577 - 1640)
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