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The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.

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Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.

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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

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Either life entails courage or it ceases to be life.

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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

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He will work off his crudities in time. I rather mistrust young men who slip into life gracefully.

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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choos...more

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There is only a certain amount of kindness in the world…just as there is a certain amount of light. We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, a...more

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Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.

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Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand.

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Human beings have their great chance in the novel.

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The tragedy of preparedness has scarcely been handled, save by the Greeks. Life is indeed dangerous, but not in the way morality would have us believe...more

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We reach in desperation beyond the fog, beyond the very stars, the voids of the universe are ransacked to justify the monster, and stamped with a huma...more

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If we lived for ever, what you say would be true. But we have to die, we have to leave life presently. Injustice and greed would be the real thing if ...more

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Some leave our life with tears, others with an insane frigidity; Mrs. Wilcox had taken the middle course, which only rarer natures can pursue. She had...more