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The span of a man's life - that is nothing. but what a man makes of that span - that is something. a man must make his own meaning for life. meaning is not automatically given to life.
-Chaim Potok
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The Span Of A Man's Life -

Chaim Potok
The span of a man's life - that is nothing. but what a man makes of that span - that is something. a man must make his own meaning for life. meaning is not automatically given to life.
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I learned a long time ago, reuven, that a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. but the eye that blinks, that is something. a span of life is nothing. but the man who lives that span, he is something. he can fill that tiny span with meaning, so its quality is immeasurable though its quantity may be insignificant. do you understand what i am saying? a man must fill his life with meaning, meaning is not automatically given to life.
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His face set in grim determination, richard slogged ahead, his fingers reaching up to touch the tooth under his shirt. loneliness, deeper than he had never known, sagged his shoulders. all his friends were lost to him. he knew now that his life was not his own. it belonged to his duty, to his task. he was the seeker. nothing more. nothing less. not his own man, but a pawn to be used by others. a tool, same as his sword, to help others, that they might have the life he had only glimpsed for a twinkling. he was no different from the dark things in the boundary. a bringer of death.
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