Umberto Saba Quotes
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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As you make your way along life's tumultuous highways, it's important to note that you should always carry a map, have plenty of fuel in the tank, and take frequent rest stops.
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I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.
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Enhanced interrogation is not to be considered lightly, but the use of enhanced interrogation techniques does not require moral people to abandon their beliefs. Rather, it is precisely during these difficult times that one's beliefs about life, justice and mercy become indispensible.
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People who have a sense of peace that their priorities are in the right place also have a sense of humility and a realistic view on life.
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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.
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The marriage state was designed to complete the sum of human happiness in this life. It sometimes proves otherwise, but this is owing to the parties themselves, who either rush into it without due consideration or fail in point of discretion in their conduct towards each other afterwards.
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Big will always be a part of my life. But I'm still on this Earth, so I have to live my life for now and the future.
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You want to have a toy and another toy, and that's not maturity. The biggest things in life are not materials.
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I personally think you can have a really rich and full life with no abs. Abs are for wimps.
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I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.
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You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.
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I'm the interpreter. I'm the one who takes your words and brings them to life. I was trained to sing and dance and laugh, and that's what I want to do.
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It's hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don't always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.
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If I don't write, I hate myself. Simple as that. My life is out of balance.
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Dad's funeral was standing room only; most in attendance were strangers to me. At the back, a lone Marine stood silently, then left. People told me he'd saved their life or helped them in their darkest hour.
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A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it.
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Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.
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Most of us don't confront pure anything. What our life does involve is a whole lot of 60/40 and 70/30.
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We never intend to lose our jobs, break up with our live-in loves, or face any number of the curveballs life throws our way. But they happen all the same, so have a bailout plan just in case. Sounds corny, but I call this the 'freedom fund' because it gives you the freedom to get out of a jam without climbing into debt.
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I give a goddamn if I never sell anotha millaI'll take my ass right back to silla hilla billaCompounds, come down, every day sell yayJust like the old days stack anotha mill up
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Bullfight critics row on row Fill the enormous Plaza de toros But only one is there who knows And he is the one who fights the bull.
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This was life: a sourly sip.
