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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.

It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.

I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.

After all, life hasn’t much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.