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Life Quotes
"The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well."
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"It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life."
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"Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex."
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"I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life."
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"A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men."
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"The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate."
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"I didn't know the first thing about the people around me, but that didn't matter: I was in a new world; and I had the feelings that at last I had put my finger on the secret of freedom."
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"Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets."
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"I know in my life there's stuff that will come back because I haven't dealt with it, and it's the same with everybody."
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"We all have sadness in our life and things that we can draw upon."
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"We were as Hansel and Gretel and we ventured out into the black forest of the world."
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"I found that when I did something for the sake of heaven, heaven happened. These things changed my life. I owe them to my encounter with Christianity."
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"We usually say of ancient persons, that they have already one foot in the grave, and the rest of their life is nothing else but the bringing of these feet together."
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"The afternoon our story begins, the quiet parts of being alive were the busiest: wind unlocking Windows; rainlight nudging curtains apart; fresh-cut grass tickling unsocked feet. Days like this made Alice want to set off on a great adventure."
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"You see people who have been very heavy in their life who have taken that body, trimmed it down, firmed it up through discipline, exercise and being able to say no. Eating properly, that all comes into it."
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"I decided to be a filmmaker when I was 12. I had utter clarity that this would be my life."
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"What they're not ready for is guys like you and I and Nails and all the other gnarly gnarlingtons in my life, that we are high priests, Vatican assassin warlocks. Boom. Print that, people. See where that goes."
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"For much of my life there was no place where the things I wanted to investigate were of interest to anyone."
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"It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth."
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"Successful model? That's a myth. The year I modeled was the most painful year of my life. Editors would always talk to you in the third person as though you were merely a piece of merchandise."
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"If you don't understand your limitations you won't achieve much in your life."
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"Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around."
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"The government's position was that we have frigates that have got a useful life until 2006. There is no necessity for us to make final decisions until 2002."
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"Some people in LA are addicted. They have to be here. My personal life is stronger than my professional life, in terms of priorities."
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"Accept that some days you're the bug, and some days you're going to be the windshield."
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"A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate."
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"At that time we were very definitely told that under no circumstances should there be any secret chapters or any other secrecy in the life of the Party, but that everything should be done publicly."
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"There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point."
Life,
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"Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace."
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