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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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Death is the end of life; ah, why
Should life all labor be?
(Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892), British poet. The Lotus-Eaters (l. 86-87). . .
Tennyson; a Selected Edition. Christopher Ricks, ed. (1989) University of California Press.)
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One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
(Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, author. Rose-Leaf and Apple-Leaf: Envoi.)
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All good things are strong inducements to life, even that good book written to attack life.
(Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture. Friedrich Nietzsche, Sδmtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe, vol. 2, p. 386, eds. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, Berlin, de Gruyter (1980). Mixed Opinions and Maxims, aphorism 16, "Good Things Seduce Us to Life," (1879).)
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The life of pleasure breeds boredom. The life of duty breeds resentment.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Eleventh Selection, New York (1993).)
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Family life is an encroachment on private 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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"This is what my learning
Teaches," the Aquarian said,
"To absorb life through the pores
For the life around you is dead."
(John Ashbery (b. 1927), U.S. poet, critic. "It Was Raining in the Capital.")
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Nothing in life possesses value except the degree of power—assuming that life itself is the will to power.
(Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture. Friedrich Nietzsche, Sδmtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe, vol. 12, p. 215, selection 5[71], eds. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, Berlin, de Gruyter (1980). Unpublished note dating to Summer 1886Fall 1887, series on "European Nihilism," section 10 (June 10, 1887).)
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