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• Continental thinkers have been obsessed with bourgeois man as representing the worst and most contemptible failure of modernity, which must at all costs be overcome. Nihilism in its most palpable sense means that the bourgeois has won, that the future, all foreseeable futures, belong to him, that all heights above him and all depths beneath him are illusory and that life is not worth living on these terms.

  Allan Bloom

  Mean, Men, Nihilism

  "The Closing of the American Mind". Book by Allan Bloom, pp. 157-158, 1987.

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• How is it that one day life is orderly and you are content, a little cynical perhaps but on the whole just so, and then without warning you find the solid floor is a trapdoor and you are now in another place whose geography is uncertain and whose customs are strange?

  Jeanette Winterson

  Life, Cynical, One Day

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• Life is so simple when you're just doing your job.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Jobs, Work, Simple

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• In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Hero, Dumb, Battle

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.3

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• O ye dead Poets, who are living still Immortal in your verse, though life be fled, And ye, O living Poets, who are dead Though ye are living, if neglect can kill, Tell me if in the darkest hours of ill, With drops of anguish falling fast and red From the sharp crown of thorns upon your head, Ye were not glad your errand to fulfill?

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Fall, Crowns, Errands

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Favorite Poems”, p.100, Courier Corporation

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• Life is hard and astonishingly complicated.... No one great reform will make it easy. Most of us who work -- or want to work -- will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Make Others Happy, Life Is Hard, Want

  Sinclair Lewis (2012). “The Job: An American Novel”, p.266, The Floating Press

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• Laws themselves, political Constitutions, are not our Life; but only the house wherein our Life is led.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Law, House, Political

  1838 Critical and Miscellaneous Essays,'History'.

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• Life is a garden forever in flower.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Life, Flower, Garden

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.585, Delphi Classics

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• Life is too short for aught but high endeavor.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Life, Too Short, Endeavor

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.493, Delphi Classics

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• Life is a Shylock; always it demands The fullest userer's interest for each pleasure. Gifts are not freely scattered by its hands; We make returns for every borrowed treasure.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Life, Hands, Treasure

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.571, Delphi Classics

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• American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralize every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it in the native good will, complacency, thoughtlessness, and optimism.

  George Santayana

  Powerful, America, Optimism

  George Santayana (1921). “Character & Opinion in the United States: With Reminiscences of William James and Josiah Royce and Academic Life in America”

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• Life is the great teacher.

  James Joyce

  Life, Teacher, Great Teacher

  James Joyce (2013). “The Best of James Joyce”, p.403, Simon and Schuster

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• City life is no life for a country man; for such a man that life is a kind of damnation in itself.

  Stephen King

  Country, Men, Cities

  Stephen King (2011). “Full Dark, No Stars”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• Life is a wheel, and if you wait long enough, it always comes back around to where it started.

  Stephen King

  Life, Long, Waiting

  Stephen King (2008). “Duma Key: A Novel”, p.424, Simon and Schuster

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• Let pessimism once take hold of the mind, and life is all topsy-turvy, all vanity and vexation of spirit. There is no cure for individual or social disorder, except in forgetfulness and annihilation.

  Helen Keller

  Vanity, Mind, Vexation

  Helen Keller (2010). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.102, Courier Corporation

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• Life is not fair... Anyone who says it is, or even that it ought to be, is a fool or worse.

  David Brin

  Fool, Ought, Fairs

  "The Uplift War". Book by David Brin, April 1987.

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• A man's life is an appendix to his heart.

  Robert South

  Heart, Men, Appendix

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p.315, 1895.

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• Life is better than death. But death comes eventually to everyone. It is something which many in their prime may prefer not to think about. But at 89, I see no point in avoiding the question. What concerns me is: How do I go? Will the end comes swiftly, with a stroke in one of the coronary arteries? Or will it be a stroke in the mind that lays me out in bed for months, semi-comatose? Of the two, I prefer the quick one.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Thinking, Two, Mind

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• Life is sacred. Life is art. Life is sacred art. The art of sacred living means being a holy actor, acting from the soul rather than the ego. The soul is out of space and time and hence always available, an ever-present potential of our being. It is up to each of us to celebrate and to actualize our being and to turn each meal, conversation, outfit, letter, and so on, into art. Every mundane activity is an opportunity for full authentic self-expression. The soul is our artistic self, our capacity for transforming every dimension of our lives into art and theater.

  Gabrielle Roth

  Art, Mean, Opportunity

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• I know there are a lot of musicians and a lot of artists, and there are a lot of writers and other people who inspire young people, but I'd like to see somebody in political life be able to connect and make these choices that we need to make in Washington real in terms of people's lives.

  John F. Kerry

  Real, Artist, People

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• Life is always uncertain, and common prudence dictates to every man the necessity of settling his temporal concerns, while it is in his power, and while the mind is calm and undisturbed.

  George Washington

  Life, Men, Mind

  George Washington (1860). “Recollections and private memoirs of Washington by his adopted son George Washington with a memoir of the author by his daughter; and illustrative and explanatory notes by Benson J. Loosing: With illustrations”, p.152

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• Soap is another article in great demand--the Continental allowance is too small, and dear, as every necessary of life is now got, a soldier's pay will not enable him to purchase, by which means his consequent dirtiness adds not a little to the disease of the Army.

  George Washington

  Mean, Army, Soldier

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson (1777). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”, p.441

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• Life is a movement outward, an unfolding.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Life, Movement, Unfolding

  Elbert Hubbard “Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Complete 14 Volumes”, Library of Alexandria

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• Life is a voyage, and we are all sailing under sealed orders. We plan, plot, scheme and arrange, and some fine day Fate steps in and our dreams are tossed into the yeasty deep. We grin and bear it--anyway we bear it: it is the only thing to do.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Life, Dream, Fate

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• I believe that the best way to prepare for a Future Life is to be kind, live one day at a time, and do the work you can do best, doing it as well as you can.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Work, Believe, One Day At A Time

  Elbert Hubbard (1901). “A Message to Garcia”

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