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• all life is no more than a match struck in the dark and blown out again
• You're the best thing that ever happened to me, no matter what
• Sitting next to strangers who fall asleep by me for no reason. Trusting rhythm. An odd intimacy, train trips.
• Haunted by the specters of something that hasn't happened
• She's smarter than me but she's also more quiet, therefore she has no personality which makes me feel better
• my whole life is passing me by and I sometimes wonder why I am even still alive
• On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection : Chapter I-C
• my life is more than this
• No one has ever been bitten to death by a poisonous snake in a ball pit
• On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection : Chapter VIII-A
• No one gets out of this life alive
• I expected to die by fire. It didn't occur to me that I might drown instead.
• even if it's just to smoke with me by this brick wall
• On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection : Chapter XIII-C
• Congratulations: you are living a life devoid of any serious problems
• No Respect For a Living Legend
• There's more to musical life than jazz and classical
• On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection : Chapter X-C
• This music crept by me upon the waters
• Hey, stop distracting me by rubbing lotion on your legs
• Tell me a story about a burro, standing atop a mesa, surrounded by a flock of geese, being fed by a weathered old man wearing nothing but a Jimmy hat
• "This happens more than you think," the agency said in a social media post.
• If you told me this never happened
• What happens when an unspeakable thing is discussed by a loquacious idiot?
• On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection : Chapter V-A
• I'm living my life vicariously through my roommate
• by any means necessary
• Let me fall until I believe, you're more than the leaves
• If memory serves me right
• Life Is Worth Living
• On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection : Chapter III-B
• Feminism, as influenced by the world around me
• On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection : Chapter IX-A
• Don't Pass Me By
• On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection : Chapter XIV-B
• On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection : Chapter VII-C
• You meant for this node to be read by me, and I would like to respond
• The Fight for Life Driven by Faith
• What do you mean by 'that pomegranate looks promising'?!
• This guy tipped his waitress a dollar with a dick drawn on it. What happened next left me questioning everything I ever thought about income inequality.
• they look up at the same night sky, they fill their heart with the same dreams, and they are infused with the breath of life by the same almighty creator
• For every rich man who tries to leave this world for a better one with his fancy tomb surrounded by mourners, there are many more who perish alone in the cold, forgotten by all but God.
• Something to remember me by
• A Book about Me, by Me Myself
• give me five minutes and i will give you your life (document)
• I don't have a life; Everyone else wants to live my life for me
• The game we play is life, and there are no rules save the ones we make
• I'm waiting for what will make me stand still the rest of my life
• Death has entered my life once more
• show me a garden that's bursting into life
• Pale sickly white girl, why you no love me?
• It seemed so real, to me these are more than wasted days
• Too much living is no way to die
• Just so we’re all clear, it is okay to miss people you no longer want in your life
• In order that I may know something more before I depart from life
• Stand by Me
• On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection : Chapter II
• On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection : Chapter VI-A
• On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection : Chapter I-B
• Sex just walked by me, and I didn't get any, dammit
• On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection : Chapter XI-C
• On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection : Chapter XI-A
• On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection : Chapter IX-B
• On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection : Chapter XIII-B
• Pragmatism by William James: Lecture II: What Pragmatism Means
• She wakes me up by tickling my feet
• On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection : Chapter VIII-B
• Erewhon : Chapter XX - What They Mean By It
• In the movie of his life, the part of Keanu Reeves will be played by a block of wood, and the critics will pan it for being too expressive
• What we mean by 'Jesus'
• So then I tried staring into the abyss, but it got distracted by a weasel and ditched me
• mark me by seconds
• When your life is defined by a single action, it changes the concept of time.
• Or he'll just kick me in the face and scream abstract noises and dance around outside in his underwear and have sex with the neighbor's dog and try to fly by jumping off the toilet
• My memory of what happened is not what happened
• A funny thing happened to me in the parking garage today
• It's all a blank, which makes me think something far far worse has actually happened
• There's nothing you can do to me that Castro hasn't already done
• You were the one beam of light in my life; I responded by putting on sunglasses.
• Bring Me to Life
• alcohol neatly halves my life into you and no you
• I was discovered by scientists, what will they call me?
• My life may no longer be my own
• You Bring Life to Me
• My life has suddenly been decided for me
• Living The Bohemian Life
• just give me an easy life and a peaceful death
• Drop Kick Me Jesus, Through The Goalposts Of Life
• life goes on easy for me, most of the time
• The life train left without me
• just because it was an accident doesn't mean it'll come back to life
• My Alaskan Life - II
• Tell me of good things that are happening in life
• Unknowingly, you are living in a "Word World", as in a fictitious life in a counterfeit nation
• Changing Your Life For Free (Or, 12-Step Programs?!: WTF Is In It For Me?!)
• After living a life in darkness, the first steps into the light are the hardest to bear.
• There Are Many People Living Inside of Me
• If you budget one more year for this behaviour, it will certainly be the last year of your life
• The 36-Hour Day: A Family Guide to Caring for Persons with Alzheimer's Disease, Related Dementing Illnesses, and Memory Loss in Later Life
• Life and Death are Wearing Me Out
• How, though the Sphere shewed me other mysteries of Spaceland, I still desired more; and what came of it
• Desperate guys who 'talk' me for no apparent reason
• When at last I found no further traces of the living or the dead, then I stopped.
• As of now you are no longer able to openly disagree with me
• This is going to hurt me more than it is going to hurt you
• .25(Brain) + .75(Other Memories) = Me
• the worst lunchbreak in living memory
• please bully me; my life is not shitty enough
• O Me! O Life!
• Take life by the hand
• They know me not by name, but numbers
• He makes me feel alone just by being there
• What happened to us, poisoned by truth
• Dragged past the interesting parts of life by common sense and assumption
• On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection : Chapter IV-A
• On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection : Chapter III-A
• On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection : Chapter I-A
• On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection : Chapter IV-C
• On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection : Chapter VI-B
• On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection : Chapter V-C
• On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection : Chapter IV-B
• On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection : Introduction
• Men get turned on by lesbians much more than women get turned on by gay men
• On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection : Chapter VII-B
• On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection : Chapter X-B
• On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection : Chapter XII-A
• On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection : Chapter XI-B
• When life gives you lemons, grab it by the throat and demand better
• On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection : Chapter X-A
• On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection : Chapter VII-A
• On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection : Chapter XIV-A
• On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection : Chapter XIII-A
• There is no weirdness like the weirdness of a novel written by a mathematician
• asphyxiated by life (user)
• No important data was harmed by the ILOVEYOU worm
• Spice up your life by attending strip clubs
• On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection : Chapter XII-B
• On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection : Chapter VI-C
• Now let's see what has happened to us by adopting a sedentary lifestyle
• Discover me so by faint indirections
• She'll outlive me by 12 million years
• and am happily disturbed by no passions
• The Goonies vs. Stand By Me
• When your imaginary life is interrupted unapologetically by your real one
• I'll pretend I just cursed myself by saying this, so when it doesn't happen I have something to fall back on other than you
• Grabbing Life by the Gi
• Suicide is punishable by resurrection. There will be no exceptions.
• Shards of memory stirred up by the wind
• How I then tried to diffuse the Theory of Three Dimensions by other means, and of the result
• You will know me by those colors, deep and bold, of the heart you never knew.
• What will happen to me, when you die?
• Life is what happens to you when you're busy making other plans
• No evil can happen
• The theory of evolution says that life originated, and evolution proceeds, by random chance
• If it hasn't happened to you in Unix, it will
• "By their very nature, negatives ought to be more abstract {than positives}."
• SciFiQuest 3016: Stuff What Hasn't Happened Yet.
• Making memories of things that haven't happened yet
• Tell Me What Happened Billy
• MY life has no carrot
• There are things that happen and there is no reason for it
• I Hate It When It Happens To Me
• War by Other Means (e2poll)
• You can get to my heart by making me cry
• Bourree from Suite No. 1 for Lute by J. S. Bach
• Frisky, most silver, serene -- bright step at the margins of air, you tiny colossus and winsome and master me, easy in sunlight, you gracious one come to me, live in my life
• Living your whole life with all the doors unlocked
• Life is easiest when living on the lawn
• Half-forgotten memories that pop up randomly throughout one's life
• Life has more twists than a rope
• Life, no road signs
• There's no room in my life for anyone to stay
• I am no doubt moving. The question now is not where, but how. My life changes everyday. Big deal.
• Yo Ho (A Pirate's Life for Me)
• I've been living my life half asleep
• On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection

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