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Life Quotes
"The Christian community latched onto a lot of my music, because there were a lot of things about my struggle they related to. But I didn't really want to come out and be identified as a Christian, because I didn't want to be a hypocrite, because my life wasn't right."
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"O, once in each man's life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door; And wit to seize the flitting guest Need never hunger more. But while the loitering idler waits Good luck beside his fire, The bold heart storms at fortune's gates, And conquers its desire."
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"I am scared; I don't know what is going to happen to me. What was the point of working so hard and of being talented, to be rewarded like this? Never a penny, tormented all my life. It is horrible; one cannot imagine it."
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"Life provides material for its agitation which makes its general views comprehensible to the masses."
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"The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one's life, but rather a legacy of character and faith."
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"Age and illness made one a dualist."
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"The vicissitude of life teaches us about our limitations in a world with no guarantees and permanence."
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"There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way."
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"Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise small children without the help of multiple adults, making for an unsupported life."
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"Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people."
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"The secret of life is to have no fear; it's the only way to function."
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"For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance."
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"I like the good life too much, I'm not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons."
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"You may call me selfish if you will, conservative or reactionary, or use any other harsh adjective you see fit to apply, but an American I was born, an American I have remained all my life."
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"You don't have to be a "person of influence" to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me."
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"Life is simply the reification of the process of living."
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"The pride of life hath corrupted the judgment of others, and perverted them in the way of religion."
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"A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life."
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"The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years."
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"Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that."
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"Life is not easy and comfortable, with nothing ever going wrong as long as you buy the right product. It's not true that if you have the right insurance everything is going to be fine. That's not what it's really like. Terrible things happen. And those are the things we learn from."
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"Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, "Why not?" and the other, "Why bother?""
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"I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance."
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"When I was still in prep school - 14, 15 - I started keeping notebooks, journals. I started writing, almost like landscape drawing or life drawing. I never kept a diary, I never wrote about my day and what happened to me, but I described things."
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