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"...Je n’ai pas cessé de l’être si c’est d’être jeune que d’aimer toujours !... L’humanité n’est pas un vain mot. Notre vie est faite d’amour, et ne plus aimer c’est ne plus vivre." (I have never ceased to be young, if being young is always loving... Humanity is not a vain word. Our life is made of love, and to love no longer is to live no longer.)"
"Life is a slate where all our sins are written; from time to time we rub the sponge of repentance over it so we can begin sinning again."
"Italians have a very closed life. Football is all their life is."
"The true object of human life is play."
"My life is passed in making bad jokes and seeing them turn into true prophecies."
"My space is small. My life is big."
"It's sometimes quite astonishing that a single, average life is enough to encompass so much that it's at all possible ever to have any success in one's work here."
"The social system is taking on a form in which finding out what you want to do is less and less of an option because your life is too structured, organised, controlled and disciplined."
"My private life is the most precious thing to me."
"If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn they will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem."
"God is a creed outworn, Ill-wrought from a mirage fair, And life is an image pale That faces a sunless morn."
"You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure."
"The art of life, of a poet's life, is, not having anything to do, to do something."
"There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold."
"Life is short and I have some things I'd still like to do."
"One of the odd enjoyments in life is to be alone in a room full of people. To have them there as unknowing human filler in your wide shot."
"Life is a hurdle and you'll never clear it. Death is the end of the ride and you fear it."
"Life is weird, great and dangerous."
"War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times."