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Life consists in our getting used to the fact that everything will go badly for us.
La vida consiste en acostumbrarnos a que todo nos va a salir mal.
There were certainly obstacles, as there always are, but then, life consists in taking such obstacles.
Había obstáculos concretos, pero la vida consiste justamente en aceptar tales obstáculos.
Life consists of interacting pieces, free to jiggle and rearrange themselves.
La vida consiste en piezas que interactúan, libres para sacudirse y reagruparse ellas mismas.
Life consists, of course, in shedding various kinds of skin – and tanning the remainder.
Está claro que la vida consiste en ir perdiendo varias clases de piel… y curtir lo que quede.
May it not be that life consists in a complexity of physical and chemical activities, of the same order as the activities we already know in science?
¿No podría ser que la vida consista en un conjunto de reacciones físicas y químicas complejas, de la misma naturaleza que los hechos que la ciencia ya conoce?
You know very well what life consists of, it consists of the humanities, and among them is a decent and intelligent control of the appetites which we share with dogs.
Sabe muy bien en qué consiste la vida: consiste en la humanidad, y parte de ella es un control decoroso e inteligente de los apetitos que compartimos con los perros.
As I once heard Andrew-that's my disappearing brother-say: 'Life consists in accommodating oneself to the Universe.' Although the rest of our family has never taken that view.
Puesto que una vez oí a Andrew -ese es mi hermano desaparecido- decir: “La vida consiste en acomodarse uno mismo al universo”. Aunque el resto de nuestra familia nunca compartió ese punto de vista.
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