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| f8a2ced | If losing Sam had taught me anything, it was to seize life-seize everything it had to offer, including the tears, the anger and loss, but most of all, the laughter and the love. To just seize life. Because it was fleeting and it was fickle, and no one, not me or anyone I knew, had another day, let alone another second promised to them. | life-lessons truth life-is-short | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 7bab957 | Art is long and life is brief and mortality looms. | mortality life margaret-atwood the-robber-bride life-is-short | Margaret Atwood | |
| f436abb | Look around. It's almost gone. If only someone had told me that before. About life. If only I had understood. | understanding life inspirational life-is-short | Marisha Pessl | |
| dc52a94 | The cabman looked at the pieces of silver, which, appearing very minute in his big, grimy palm, symbolised the insignificant results which reward the ambitious courage and toil of a mankind whose day is short on this earth of evil. | life-is-short | Joseph Conrad |