An open book has fanned pages rising into a small paper bird against a warm golden background.

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Time Enough for Love · 1973

Robert Heinlein

You live and learn. Or you don’t live long.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The familiar phrase about learning through life is given a sharper alternative. Failing to learn is presented as a threat to continuing at all. The brevity makes adaptation feel urgent: experience matters because paying attention to it may be part of staying alive.

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