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I’m totally not kidding. … Life is too short. This is all too hard to do to actually be kidding about the whole thing.

— Miranda July

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They wordlessly excused each other for not loving each other as much as they had planned.

Now began the part of her life where she was just very beautiful. Except for nothing.

Common sense and the truth should feel authorless, writ by time itself.

The Shared Patio (2005)

It was a tiny sound but it woke me up because it was a human sound.

I wanted to make the movie feel like life feels to me — and life feels both sad and dark and confusing and more than hopeful — it feels like something totally incredible could happen at any moment and with no explanation.

On her film Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005)

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell Marriage and Morals (1929)

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

Reason is Life's sole arbiter, the magic Laby'rinth's single clue:
Worlds lie above, beyond its ken; what crosses it can ne'er be true.

Richard Francis Burton The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)

It is the law of life that if you are kind to someone you feel happy. If you are cruel you are unhappy. And if you hurt someone, you will be hurt back.

Cary Grant Love – That’s All Cary Grant Ever Thinks About (1964)

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