| Amount of texts to »life« | 136, and there are 132 texts (97.06%) with a rating above the adjusted level (-3) |
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| Average Rating | 2.147 points, 25 Not rated texts |
| First text | on May 19th 2000, 10:15:44 wrote Pat about life |
| Latest text | on Jun 16th 2009, 20:01:52 wrote kingfish about life |
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on Feb 26th 2003, 15:37:29 wrote
on Sep 10th 2001, 00:54:08 wrote
on Apr 24th 2002, 01:36:19 wrote |
»Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what HAVE you had?«
Henry James
The Ambassadors
My Life Closed Twice Before it Closed
by Emily Dickinson
My life closed twice before its close;
It yet remains to see
If Immortality unveil
A third event to me,
So huge, so hopeless to conceive,
As these that twice befell.
Parting is all we know of heaven,
And all we need of hell.
LIFE! I know not what thou art,
But know that thou and I must part;
And when, or how, or where we met,
I own to me 's a secret yet.
But this I know, when thou art fled,
Where'er they lay these limbs, this head,
No clod so valueless shall be
As all that then remains of me.
---------- Anna Lætitia Barbauld. 1743–1825
I wonder what it was in Emily Dickinson's life that made her think that parting partook of heaven – especially if she was talking about the final parting of death, which I assume she was.
For me, another great poet, Goethe, was nearer the mark, when he said that we must always be careful – for every parting with those we love contains within it the seeds of madness....
It is a common saying, and in everybody’s mouth, that life is but a sojourn.
--Plato.
When it comes time to cash in that Ninth Life, I hope I will be in the sea. Man is a fish in exile. To become part of a kaleidoscopically dazzling coral reef certainly seems preferable to becoming food for worms in a city cemetery or burning in a crematory oven for an hour and a half.
When we speak the word »life« it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.
(Antonin Artaud)
I'm still not sure about the meaning of life. Fortunately, this is not a graded essay!
life is 10% what happens to you,
and 90% how you react to it.
Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
(Ruth Rendell)
Life is whatever you want to make of your life. Your life is only what you want your life to be!
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