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But life is short: while one lives, everything is lacking; when one is dead, everything is superfluous.

— Lope de Vega La Dorotea (1632)

Pero la vida es corta:
viviendo, todo falta;
muriendo, todo sobra.

Original text (Spanish)

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But being women, it is understood
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