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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
Ian Fleming You Only Live Twice · 1964

Quotes

“If you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.”

Ernest Hemingway · For Whom the Bell Tolls, 1940 · Primary source

“He touched her for the last time and then they turned away from each other and walked off into their different lives.”

Ian Fleming · Moonraker, 1955 · Primary source

“But I am greedy for life. I do too much of everything all the time. Suddenly one day my heart will fail. The Iron Crab will get me as it got my father. But I am not afraid of The Crab. At least I shall have died from an honourable disease. Perhaps they will put on my tombstone. ‘This Man Died from Living Too Much’.”

Ian Fleming · From Russia, with Love, 1957 · Primary source

“However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names.”

Henry David Thoreau · Walden, 1849 · Primary source

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