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Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of light

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning. – Samuel Butler

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A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind. – Samuel Butler

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Genius
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A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing. – Samuel Butler

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Knowledge
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One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once. – Samuel Butler

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The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself. – Anais Nin

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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work — that goes on, it adds up. – Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means. – Albert Camus

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Life is a series of collisions with the future. РJos̩ Ortega y Gasset

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Hope is the feeling that the feeling you have isnt permanent. – Jean Kerr

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