"Life is not long for anybody, and the problem is only to make something of it."
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"Although whenever you have intelligent life in the presence of large explosions, a safe bet is that the intelligent life is responsible for the large explosion."
"Truth, such as is necessary to the reputation of life, is always found where it is honestly sought."
"The joy of life is variety."
"The whole of life is but keeping away the thoughts of death."
"It is astonishing that any man can forbear enquiring seriously whether there is a God; whether God is just; whether this life is the only state of existence."
"Every period of life is obliged to borrow its happiness from time to come."
"Life is barren enough surely with all her trappings; let us be therefore cautious of how we strip her."
"Life is surely given us for higher purposes than to gather what our ancestors have wisely thrown away, and to learn what is of no value but because it has been forgotten."
"In any case life is but a procession of shadows, and God knows why it is that we embrace them so eagerly, and see them depart with such anguish, being shadows."
"Ye know full well that the meaning of life is to find your gift. To find your gift is happiness. Never tae find it is misery."
"Life is a trick, and you get one chance to learn it."
"Time is so strange and life is twice as strange."
"The great thing about my life is that everything I've done is a result of what I was when I was 12 or 13."
"Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is."
"I suffer from the sense that everything good in my life is about to go away."
"There are dreadful moments when death comes very near those we love, even if for the time being it passes by. But life is a great adventure, and the worst of all fears is the fear of living."
"Sex, which ought to be an incident of life, is the obsession of the well-fed world."
"I just think that life is a constant experiment."
"The bad guys, when they start getting picked off, they're upset that their friends died, too. But that's the thing. That's what life is. It's that weird gray area."