It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
On the Shortness of Life, §1 (49 CE)
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The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.
Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms, ch. 34 (1929)
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