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What life have you if you have not life together?
There is no life that is not in community,
(T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888-1965), U.S.-born—British poet, critic. "Choruses from 'The Rock'....")
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Medicine: "Your money and your life!"
(Karl Kraus (1874-1936), Austrian writer. Trans. by Harry Zohn, originally published in Beim Wort genommen (1955). Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths, University of Chicago Press (1990).)
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But thoughts, the slaves of life, and life, time's fool,
And time, that takes survey of all the world,
Must have a stop.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Hotspur, in Henry IV, Part 1, act 5, sc. 4, l. 81-3.
Spoken as he dies, killed in battle by Prince Hal; thought is dependent on life, and life on time.)
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Life's nonsense pierces us with strange relation.
(Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), U.S. poet. "Notes toward a Supreme Fiction.")
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Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.
(Angela Carter (1940-1992), British postmodern novelist. repr. Penguin. Wise Children, ch. 4, Chatto & Windus (1991).)
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Life's too short for chess.
(Henry J. Byron (1834-1884), British dramatist. Talbot Champneys, in Our Boys, act 1.)
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Death or life or life or death
Death is life and life is death
I gotta use words when I talk to you
But if you understand or if you dont
That's nothing to me and nothing to you
We all gotta do what we gotta do
(T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888-1965), U.S.-born—British poet, critic. "Sweeney Agonistes.")
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Then I will no longer
Find myself in life as in a strange garment
(William Stanley Merwin (b. 1927), U.S. poet. For the Anniversary of My Death (l. 6-7). . .
New Oxford Book of American Verse, The. Richard Ellmann, ed. (1976) Oxford University Press.)
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