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Marcus Aurelius Philosopher, Emperor
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"Consider when thou art much vexed or grieved, that man's life is only a moment, and after a short time we are all laid out dead."

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Geoff Dyer Author
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"I guess that as life is speeded up and our capacity for concentration is being nibbled away at by all the obvious things, that leads us actually to be more susceptible to boredom."

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"Only by pursuing the extremes in one's nature, with all its contradictions, appetites, aversions, rages, can one hope to understand a little - oh, I admit only a very little - of what life is about."

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Julian Barnes Author
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"The writer's life [is] full of frailty and defeat like any other life. What counts is the work. Yet the work can quite easily be buried, or half-buried, by the life."

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Martin Luther King, Jr. Civil Rights Leader
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"If I were constantly worried about death, I couldn't function. After a while, if your life is more or less constantly in peril, you come to a point where you accept the possibility philosophically."

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