"The secret of life is more life."

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“Oh, where does the light go when the light goes out?”

“Truth, like a woman, must be wooed and won - and this only through the purity of mind and the heart’s deep love.”

“Eternity and pain, pain and eternity — they are the only two things of which the universe is made.”

“Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise.”

“But it is the nature of life that no emotion is meant to last forever...”

“A man lusts to become a god ... and there is murder. Murder upon murder upon murder. Why is the world of men nothing but murder?”

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"Economic life, as always, is a matrix in which result becomes cause and cause becomes result."

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Politics1908–2006

#life

"I've always wanted to be an expert on tadpoles. I've always fancied being a tadpole expert. It's a wonderful life if you become an experty tadpoleous, as they are known in the trade. You get invited t…"

— Peter Cook

Entertainment1937–1995

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"I have known fellows to whom the earth was so full of little pleasures that after the worst clouts they rose like larks from a furrow. A wise philosophy—but I had none of it. I always saw the little p…"

— John Buchan

Politics1875–1940

#life