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«Life is an incurable disease»
Author: Abraham Cowley (Essayist, Poet) | About: Life | Keywords: incurable
«Life is an error-making and an error-correcting process, and nature in marking man's papers will grade him for wisdom as measured both by survival and by the quality of life of those who survive.»
«Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.»
Author: Jose Ortega y Gasset | About: Life | Keywords: inexorably, operation
«Life is an adventure in forgiveness.»
«Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.»
Author: Dave Barry (Humorist, Writer) | About: Life | Keywords: dies, on it, stomp, stomping, stomps
«Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.»
Author: Edith Wharton (Novelist) | About: Life | Keywords: feather, feather bed, tightrope
«Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.»
Author: Helen Keller (Author, Educator) | About: Life | Keywords: business life, exciting
«Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question»
«Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe»
«Life is an onion and one peels it crying»