Edgar Lee Masters on life and death

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• Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.

  John Lennon1940–1980Double Fantasy (1980), “Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)”

• Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.

  James Dean1931–1955

• Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

  Mahatma Gandhi1869–1948

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

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