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Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

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The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

They decided to let immigrants in and I am an immigrant. They gave us a chance to participate in this country’s life and I took it.

My trade and art is to live.

If your life changes, we can change the world, too.

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life’s parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

The function of the novelist… is to comment upon life as he sees it.

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.

I bear a charmed life.

A thick skin is a gift from God.

The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.

I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.

So I’m very grateful for everything that has happened in my life.

Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away.

I can’t go on. I’ll go on.

I’m clenched down, I’m locked in on it, which is my general approach to life.

God continues to work miracles in my life.

While there’s life, there’s hope.

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

An ‘unemployed’ existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical guise.

A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.