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"A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it."
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"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."

"Don't look for meaning in life. It was meant to be lived not understood."

"I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved."

"When all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?'I decided I'm going to live---or at least try to live---the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humor, with composure."

"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases."

"If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave."
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"The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality."

"An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature."

"Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit."

"The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship."

"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools."

"People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal."
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