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The two quotes above illustrate how differently people view the quality of their lives and how difficult it is to pin down this concept.
The life which is unexamined is not worth living.
Plato, Dialogues 428–348 B.C.
I love long life better than figs.
Shakespeare (Anthony and Cleopatra)
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Wassertheil-Smoller, S. (1995). Mostly about Quality of Life. In: Biostatistics and Epidemiology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2424-0_7
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