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We’re making it up. The world, the universe, life, reality. Especially reality.

—Tom Robbins

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Salvation is for the feeble, that’s what I think. I don’t want salvation. I want life, all of life, the miserable as well as the superb.

—Tom Robbins

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People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

—Logan Pearsall Smith

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

—J. M. Barrie

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No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

—Charles Dickens

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Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.

—Redd Foxx

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

—Baltasar Gracián

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But life, if nothing else, had taught her promises weren’t always to be counted on, and what appeared at first a shining chance might end in bitter disappointment.

—Susanna Kearsley in The Winter Sea

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Life is too short for traffic.

—Dan Bellack

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I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.

—Herb Caen

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

—Robert Herrick

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It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have, it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.

—D. H. Lawrence

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Everything on earth [is] beautiful, everything, except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.

—Anton Chekhov

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Happiness is always a byproduct. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy, you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

—Robertson Davies

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What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn't come every day.

—George Bernard Shaw

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