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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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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, Sämtliche 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 Unpublished note dating to Summer 1886Fall 1887, series on "European Nihilism," section 10 (June 10, 1887).)
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Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.
(E.M. (Edward Morgan) Forster (1879-1970), British novelist, essayist. Pharos and Pharillon, "The Poetry of C.P. Cavafy," in the Pharillon section (1923).)
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A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
(George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Anglo-Irish playwright, critic. "The Technical Problem," preface, The Doctor's Dilemma (1911).)
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Life and death have been lacking in my life.
(Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), Argentinian author. Prologue, Discussion [Discusión] (1932).)
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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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Joy, shipmate, joy!
(Pleas'd to my soul at death I cry,)
Our life is closed, our life begins,
(Walt Whitman (1819-1892), U.S. poet. Joy, Shipmate, Joy! (L. 1-3). . .
The Complete Poems [Walt Whitman]. Francis Murphy, ed. (1975; repr. 1986) Penguin Books.)
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The Simple Life is not a simple life.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Third Selection, New York (1986).)
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What is there in life except one's ideas,
Good air, good friend, what is there in life?
(Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), U.S. poet. "The Man with the Blue Guitar.")
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