“Life is too short, or too long, for me to allot myself the luxury of living it so badly.”

— Paulo Coelho , book Eleven Minutes

Variant: Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.
Source: Eleven Minutes

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Brazilian lyricist and novelist 1947

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