“Life is too short to be lived badly.”
Marjane Satrapi (1969) Artist
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“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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