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Life lives on life - it is cruel, but it is God's will. And it is for our good, of course, because if there weren't little animals to eat up the young mussels, our canals would be choked by those shellfish, for each mother has more than a thousand young ones at a time!

— Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

All of us want to live, and that is absolutely natural. However, we should learn from childhood on to choose our best way to die. If we don't do that, we end up spending our days like a dog, only in search of harbour, food and expressing a blind loyalty to his owner in return. That isn't enough to make our lives have a meaning.

— Yamamoto Tsunetomo

It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.

— Guy de Maupassant

Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.

— Alan Bennett

I think life's a bit of what you make it and a little smidgen of you being the jellyfish, and the tide's just gently helping you along.

— Andrew Buchan

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

— Rollo May

Life is precious. Life is sacred. And it ought so to be observed.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.

— Tom Robbins

The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.

— Edith Hamilton

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

— Fred Allen

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

— Alice Walker

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