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Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them. ↗

— Julien Green

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The human race is intoxicated with narrow victories, for life is a string of them like pearls that hit the floor when the rope breaks, and roll away in perfection and anarchy. ↗

— Mark Helprin

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Someone said that life is a party. You join in after it's started and leave before it's finished. ↗

— Elsa Maxwell

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Life is a journey and it's about growing and changing and coming to terms with who and what you are and loving who and what you are. ↗

— Kelly McGillis

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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

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Life is a succession of crises and moments when we have to rediscover who we are and what we really want. ↗

— Jean Vanier

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Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

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A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it. ↗

— Jean Anouilh

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Life is a risk. ↗

— Carmelo Anthony

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