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All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away.

1st Peter 1:24

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (1st Peter 1:24).

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Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.

Allen Saunders

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Saunders, Allen. Quoted in Reader's Digest. Jan. 1957.

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You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.

Annie Proulx

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The Shipping News

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Proulx, Annie. The Shipping News. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1993, ch. 10.

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One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.

Ecclesiastes 1:4

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Ecclesiastes 1:4).

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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

J.R.R. Tolkien

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Tolkien, J. R. R. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. George Allen & Unwin, 1954, ch. 2.

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All theory, dear friend, is grey, but the golden tree of actual life springs ever green.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Faust

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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. "Studiezimmer [Study Room]." Faust. Eine Tragödie [Faust: A Tragedy]. Tübingen: J. G. Cotta’schen Buchhandlung, 1808.

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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. "Study Room." Faust, Part One, edited by David Luke. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.

Lucretius Carus

De Rerum Natura

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Carus, Titus Lucretius. De Rerum Natura [On the Nature of Things]. c. 55 BC, bk. 3, l. 971.

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Carus, Titus Lucretius. The Nature of Things, translated by Alicia Stallings. Penguin Classics, 2007, bk. 3, l. 971.

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The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, for it requires that we should stand ready and firm to meet onsets which are sudden and unexpected.

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations

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Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations. c. 180, bk. 7.

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Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations, edited and translated by Martin Hammond. Penguin Classics, 2015, bk. 7.

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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Oscar Wilde

Fortnightly Review

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Wilde, Oscar. "The Soul of Man Under Socialism." Fortnightly Review. London: Chapman and Hall, Feb. 1891.

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Wilde, Oscar. "The Soul of Man Under Socialism." The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose, edited by Linda Dowling. Penguin Classics, 2001.

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Don't be in a hurry. You'll miss the best parts in life.

Around the World in 80 Days

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Around the World in 80 Days. Directed by Michael Anderson, Michael Todd Company, 1956.

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Life, uh, finds a way.

Jurassic Park

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Jurassic Park. Directed by Steven Spielberg, Universal Pictures/Amblin Entertainment, 1993.

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O for a Life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts!

John Keats

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Keats, John. Letter to Benjamin Bailey. 22 Nov. 1817.

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Keats, John. Letter to Benjamin Bailey, 22 Nov. 1817." John Keats Selected Letters, edited by John Barnard. Penguin Classics, 2015.

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Yet we have gone on living,
Living and partly living.

T.S. Eliot

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Eliot, T. S. Murder in the Cathedral. 1935, Chapter House, Canterbury Cathedral, pt. 1.

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Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.

Bob Dylan

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Dylan, Bob. Chronicles: Volume I. Simon & Schuster, 2004.

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Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.

Stephen Chbosky

The Perks of Being a Walflower

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Chbosky, Stephen. The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Pocket Books, 1999.

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You don't want the bumpers. Life doesn't give you bumpers.

Boyhood

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Boyhood. Directed by Richard Linklater, Detour Filmproduction and Cinetic Media, 2014.

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Did you ever think that maybe there's more to life than being really, really, really, ridiculously good looking?

Derek Zoolander

Zoolander

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Zoolander. Directed by Ben Stiller, Village Roadshow Productions/VH1 Films/NPV Entertinment/Red Hour Productions/Scott Rudin Productions, 2001.

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Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.
Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Knickerbocker

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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, [published anonymously]. "A Psalm of Life." The Knickerbocker. New York: Lewis Gaylord Clark, Oct. 1838, I. 1.

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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. "A Psalm of Life." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems and Other Writings, edited by J. D. McClatchy. Library of America, 2000, I. 1.

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