“Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard.”
Source: Jitterbug Perfume (1984)
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“How easy life is when it's easy, and how hard when it's hard.”
Source: The Professor Of Desire

“If birth is a manifestation of life, death is another.”
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“How dismal the necessity of birth! how miserable the necessity of living! how hard the necessity of death!”
O neccessitas abiecta nascendi, vivendi misera dura moriendi.
Lib. 8, Ep. 11, sect. 4; vol. 2, p. 463.
Epistularum

“Life has no opposite. The opposite of death is birth. Life is eternal.”
Source: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“Life is a space between two illusions: Birth and Death…”
ESOF (2010).

“Manners are easy," said Coningsby, "and life is hard.”
Book 3, Chap. 4.
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