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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

I think there’s something peculiar about me that I haven’t died. It doesn’t make sense but I refuse to die.

Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

The world is but a perpetual see-saw.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.