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half a lifetime

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I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment. Marcel Marceau

I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment. John Locke

I am ambitious, but it's a long-range thing with me. I have my confidential sights on a star, but there's half a lifetime to get to it. Meanwhile I keep my eyes open and am well dressed. Grace Paley

Half a lifetime is spent with the unspoken question: Will it happen will it not? Max Frisch

At each of these northern posts there were interesting experiences in store for me, as one who had read all the books of northern travel and dreamed for half a lifetime of the north; and that was - almost daily meeting with famous men. Ernest Thompson Seton

It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart. Jonathan Carroll

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