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"I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life."
Laurence Sterne
"I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life."
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"If you live the same day, week, or year that you have always lived, your life will never get any better. Let yourself actually live. Fix what is broken in your life. Explore what you have left unexplored. Find the discomfort of the new and embrace it. Enjoy all that life has to offer."
Avina Celeste
"If you live the same day, week, or year that you have always lived, your life will never get any better. Let yourself actually live. Fix what is broken in your life. Explore what you have left unexplored. Find the discomfort of the new and embrace it. Enjoy all that life has to offer."
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"But why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wait lurking to surprise you and make you glad you're alive to see?"
Jack Kerouac
"But why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wait lurking to surprise you and make you glad you're alive to see?"
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"Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece."
Nadia Boulanger
"Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece."
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"Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand."
James Thomson
"Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand."
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"It's a good thing I don't read everything Eddie says, or I'd be up in arms and not enjoying my life."
Sammy Hagar
"It's a good thing I don't read everything Eddie says, or I'd be up in arms and not enjoying my life."
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"Things you create with your mind are always part of your postmortal life, whether they seem real or not."
Hans Bender
"Things you create with your mind are always part of your postmortal life, whether they seem real or not."
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"Child actors come off as work being their life and doing it 24/7, but I still have those days where it's totally, like, whatever: shopping, movies, adventures."
Hailee Steinfeld
"Child actors come off as work being their life and doing it 24/7, but I still have those days where it's totally, like, whatever: shopping, movies, adventures."
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"Every day is divine."
Lailah Gifty Akita
"Every day is divine."
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"Having loving and supporting parents didn't make me feel any better about the possibility of seeing my personal life splashed across newspapers and tabloids."
Mary Cheney
"Having loving and supporting parents didn't make me feel any better about the possibility of seeing my personal life splashed across newspapers and tabloids."
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"It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear."
George MacDonald
"It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear."
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"When you were on stage, you could be absolutely open about your emotions and indulge them and express yourself in a way that - in real life - I wasn't doing."
"When you were on stage, you could be absolutely open about your emotions and indulge them and express yourself in a way that - in real life - I wasn't doing."
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"Don't forget either, you unhappy man, that voluntary confinement is a great deal harder to bear than compulsory."
Anton Chekhov
"Don't forget either, you unhappy man, that voluntary confinement is a great deal harder to bear than compulsory."
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"There are dreams which belong only partly in the unconscious; these are the dreams we remember on waking so vividly that we deliberately continue them, and so fall asleep again and wake and sleep and the dream goes on without interruption, with a thread of logic the pure dream doesn't possess."
Graham Greene
"There are dreams which belong only partly in the unconscious; these are the dreams we remember on waking so vividly that we deliberately continue them, and so fall asleep again and wake and sleep and the dream goes on without interruption, with a thread of logic the pure dream doesn't possess."
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"My first novel took 12 years to complete because life got in my way."
Donald McKay
"My first novel took 12 years to complete because life got in my way."
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"I went to public schools, and while Gary was, like most American cities, racially segregated, it was at least socially integrated - a cross section of children from families of all walks of life."
Joseph E. Stiglitz
"I went to public schools, and while Gary was, like most American cities, racially segregated, it was at least socially integrated - a cross section of children from families of all walks of life."
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"Alone, alone. I am alone " I ache. Yet for the first time, despite all the anguish and the reality problems, I'm here. I feel tranquil, whole, ADULT."
Susan Sontag
"Alone, alone. I am alone " I ache. Yet for the first time, despite all the anguish and the reality problems, I'm here. I feel tranquil, whole, ADULT."
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"Life is one big transition."
Willie Stargell
"Life is one big transition."
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"Often in life the pleasure of the journey is only eclipsed by the ecstasy of the destination."
Ken Poirot
"Often in life the pleasure of the journey is only eclipsed by the ecstasy of the destination."
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"I get half a million just to show up at parties. My life is, like, really, really fun."
Paris Hilton
"I get half a million just to show up at parties. My life is, like, really, really fun."
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"I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite amazing."
Rita Dove
"I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite amazing."
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"Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man."
Patrick White
"Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man."
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"Nobody ever goes before their time."
Joyce Rachelle
"Nobody ever goes before their time."
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"Human beings are pampered by the Lord. Their real tests don't come until later in life."
Willie Stargell
"Human beings are pampered by the Lord. Their real tests don't come until later in life."
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"Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved."
David Herbert Lawrence
"Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved."
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"We are not slaves of the past, nor servants of the present, but masters of the future."
A.J. Darkholme
"We are not slaves of the past, nor servants of the present, but masters of the future."
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"We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead."
Sophocles
"We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead."
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"I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all."
Richard Wright
"I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all."
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"There are movies that require fantasy and slightly more fantastical acting. Lines that are good for certain movies, in real life circumstances, would be absolutely unbelievable things to really say, and you would look at these people like they're freaks for conversing that way. But somehow for certain styles of movies, it works, and it seems fine."
Christian Bale
"There are movies that require fantasy and slightly more fantastical acting. Lines that are good for certain movies, in real life circumstances, would be absolutely unbelievable things to really say, and you would look at these people like they're freaks for conversing that way. But somehow for certain styles of movies, it works, and it seems fine."
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"The chief problem about death, incidentally, is the fear that there may be no afterlife - a depressing thought, particularly for those who bothered to shave. Also, there is the fear that there is an afterlife but no one will know where it's being held. On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily laying down."
Woody Allen
"The chief problem about death, incidentally, is the fear that there may be no afterlife - a depressing thought, particularly for those who bothered to shave. Also, there is the fear that there is an afterlife but no one will know where it's being held. On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily laying down."
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"Yet when one suspects that a man knows something about life that one hasn't heard before one is uneasy until one has found out what he has to say."
Frederick Pollock
"Yet when one suspects that a man knows something about life that one hasn't heard before one is uneasy until one has found out what he has to say."
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"While some no other cause for life can give, but a dull habitude to live."
John Oldham
"While some no other cause for life can give, but a dull habitude to live."
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"Being on a television series is sort of life-altering on every level."
Victor Garber
"Being on a television series is sort of life-altering on every level."
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"My mother's father drank and her mother was an unhappy, neurotic woman, and I think she has lived all her life afraid of anyone who drinks for fear something like that might happen to her."
John Hurt
"My mother's father drank and her mother was an unhappy, neurotic woman, and I think she has lived all her life afraid of anyone who drinks for fear something like that might happen to her."
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"Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough."
Garrison Keillor
"Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough."
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"I am, of course, aware that the ultimate solution is the ownership and control of the means of life by the whole of the people; but we are not at that stage of development as yet."
James Larkin
"I am, of course, aware that the ultimate solution is the ownership and control of the means of life by the whole of the people; but we are not at that stage of development as yet."
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"Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash."
Louis Aragon
"Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash."
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"God too longs; and because the Absolute Life itself, which dwells in our life, and inspires these very longings, possesses the true world, and is that world."
Josiah Royce
"God too longs; and because the Absolute Life itself, which dwells in our life, and inspires these very longings, possesses the true world, and is that world."
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"I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the life of those people."
Mary S. Calderone
"I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the life of those people."
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"No, no, it was the relationships. That was that group. People believed that Rob and Laura were really married in real life. You know, a lot of people believed that."
Dick Van Dyke
"No, no, it was the relationships. That was that group. People believed that Rob and Laura were really married in real life. You know, a lot of people believed that."
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"I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing."
W. Somerset Maugham
"I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing."
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"Man unlike the animal has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it."
Samuel Butler
"Man unlike the animal has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it."
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"Life without love is a cold branch of a non-grounded tree."
Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann
"Life without love is a cold branch of a non-grounded tree."
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"But I am bound upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears do scald like moulten lead."
William Shakespeare
"But I am bound upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears do scald like moulten lead."
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"Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live."
Raoul Vaneigem
"Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live."
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"I never thought of stopping, and I just hated sleeping. I can't imagine having a better life."
Barbara McClintock
"I never thought of stopping, and I just hated sleeping. I can't imagine having a better life."
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"I think that if my kids are completely convinced of God's unfailing love for them, whether they fail or not, they'll have confidence to persevere in life."
Amy Grant
"I think that if my kids are completely convinced of God's unfailing love for them, whether they fail or not, they'll have confidence to persevere in life."
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"Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is an abyss of individuality, the only infinite plenitude."
Karl Schlegel
"Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is an abyss of individuality, the only infinite plenitude."
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"Life is full of risks anyway, why not take them?"
Lindsay Lohan
"Life is full of risks anyway, why not take them?"
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"Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women."
Adrienne Rich
"Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women."
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