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Life

«Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.»
«Life is a paradox, you're damned if you do and damned if you don't»
Author: Nancy Cartwright (Actress) | About: Life, Paradox | Keywords: damned, paradox
«Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.»
Author: Truman Capote (Novelist, Playwright, Writer) | About: Life | Keywords: badly, moderately
«Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turn before we have learnt to walk»
Author: Cyril Connolly | About: Life | Keywords: learnt, maze, mazes, The Maze
«Life is a long lesson in humility.»
«Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination.»
«Life is a long preparation for something that never happens»
Author: William Butler Yeats (Dramatist, Poet, Writer) | About: Life | Keywords: preparation
«Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.»
«Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Life | Keywords: gilding
«Life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning»
Author: Virginia Woolf (Writer) | About: Life | Keywords: halo, luminous, transparent