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Life is not the amount of breaths you take, it’s the moments that take your breath away.
— Alex Hitch Hitchens
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The saying measures life through experiences that inspire awe rather than through the number of breaths taken. Repeating breath in a figurative sense transforms a bodily measure into an emotional one. Its contrast gives memorable moments greater weight than the simple accumulation of time alive.
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