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Cocteau, Jean. Opium, Journal d'une Desintoxication [Opium: Diary of a Cure]. Librairie Stock, 1930.

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Santayana, George. The Life of Reason: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense, edited by Marianne S. Wokeck and Martin A. Coleman. Vol. 7, The MIT Press, 2011, bk. 1, ch. 10. Originally published by Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905.

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London, Jack. "The Call of the Wild." The Saturday Evening Post, 1903.

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London, Jack. "The Call of the Wild." The Call of the Wild and Selected Stories. Signet, 2009, ch. 3.

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Larkin, Philip. "Days." The Whitsun Weddings. Faber and Faber, 1964, I. 1.

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Crowfoot. Farewell to his people. 25 Apr. 1890, Blackfoot Crossing Historical Park, Alberta, Canada.

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Sacks, Oliver. "My Own Life." The New York Times, 19 Feb. 2015.

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Service, Robert W. "The Quitter." Rhymes of a Rolling Stone. Dodd, Mead and Co., 1912.

I've lived a life that's full, I've travelled each and ev'ry highway
And more, much more than this. I did it my way.

Frank Sinatra

My Way

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Anka, Paul. "My Way." Composed by Jacques Revaux. Performed by Frank Sinatra. My Way. Reprise Records, 1969.

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Haggard, H. Rider. King Solomon's Mines. London: Cassell and Company, 1886.

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Haggard, H. Rider. King Solomon's Mines. Penguin Classics, 2008.

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Sabrina. Directed by Billy Wilder, Paramount Pictures, 1954.

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Psalm 90:10).

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Socrates. Quoted in Πολιτεία [Republic], written by Plato. c. 375 BCE.

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Socrates. Quoted in Republic, written by Plato, translated by Desmond Lee. Penguin Classics, 2007.

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Dickens, Charles. The Personal History of David Copperfield. London: Bradbury & Evans, Sept. 1850, issue 17, ch. 53.

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Dickens, Charles. David Copperfield, edited by Jeremy Tambling. Penguin Classics, 2004, ch. 53.

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Ecclesiastes 8:15).

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Forrest Gump. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, The Tisch Company, 1994.

Life is long if you know how to use it.

Seneca the Younger

On the Shortness of Life

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Seneca the Younger. De Brevitate Vitae [On The Shortness of Life]. c. 49 AD.

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Seneca the Younger. "On the Shortness of Life." On the Shortness of Life: Life is Long If You Know How to Use It, translated by C. D. N. Costa. Penguin Books, 2005.

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Hemingway, Ernest. The Sun Also Rises. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926, bk. 1, ch. 2.

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De Montaigne, Michael. "De l'Exercitation [Use Makes Perfect]." Essais [Essays]. Paris: Simon Millanges and Jean Richer, 1580.

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De Montaigne, Michel. "On Practice." The Complete Essays, edited and translated by M. A. Screech. Penguin Classics, 1993.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Journal entry. Aug. 1847.

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Arthur Rimbaud

A Season in Hell

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Rimbaud, Arthur. Une Saison en Enfer [A Season in Hell]. Bruxelles: Self-published, 1873.

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Rimbaud, Arthur. "A Season in Hell." Arthur Rimbaud: Complete Works, translated by Paul Schmidt. Harper Perennial, 2008.