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• The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
• Life exists for no known purpose.
• Life imitates art far more than art imitates life -- Oscar Wilde
• No small art is it to sleep: it is necessary for that purpose to keep awake all day. -- Nietzsche
• A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Areopagitica...
• Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
• Methought I heard a voice cry, "Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep!
  he innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast....
• Life is more important than art; that's what makes art important. -- James Baldwi