“Life is too short, and Proust is too long.”
Apparently an invention by Maurice Sachs; see discussion in Quotes about Proust.
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Anatole France 122
French writer 1844–1924Related quotes

“Life is too short, or too long, for me to allot myself the luxury of living it so badly.”
Variant: Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.
Source: Eleven Minutes
“Life is too short to spend too long at work and also to waste your time while in the workplace.”
Source: Your Job-Hunt Ltd – Advice from an Award-Winning Asian Headhunter (2003), Successful Recruitment in a Week (2012) https://books.google.ae/books?idp24GkAsgjGEC&printsecfrontcover&dqnigel+cumberland&hlen&saX&ved0ahUKEwjF75Xw0IHNAhULLcAKHazACBMQ6AEIGjAA#vonepage&qnigel%20cumberland&ffalse, Managing Teams in a Week (2013) https://books.google.ae/books?idqZjO9_ov74EC&printsecfrontcover&dqnigel+cumberland&hlen&saX&ved0ahUKEwjF75Xw0IHNAhULLcAKHazACBMQ6AEIIDAB#vonepage&qnigel%20cumberland&ffalse, Secrets of Success at Work – 50 techniques to excel (2014) https://books.google.ae/books?id4S7vAgAAQBAJ&printsecfrontcover&dqnigel+cumberland&hlen&saX&ved0ahUKEwjF75Xw0IHNAhULLcAKHazACBMQ6AEIJjAC#vonepage&qnigel%20cumberland&ffalse, p.36

“Life's too short to be bitter, I'm too short to be bitter.”
http://www.last.fm/user/helena_wanje.

“Life is too short to be little.”
Source: Coningsby, or, The New Generation

Henry James Byron, Our Boys (1875), Act I
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“Life is too short to be lived badly.”
Source: Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return

“Life's too short. Start with Dessert!”