Auntie Mame is a great movie from the 1950's about a woman who goes through many stages in life -- all of them lived to the fullest. Her motto was to Live, Live, Live. It is a great motto, but its nice to keep it in perspective with Hemmingway's comments on living life to the fullest.
In the novel "The Sun Also Rises" Earnest Hemmingway has the following exchange which does a good job of depicting how difficult it is to live life to the fullest:
[Cohn:]“I can’t stand it to think my life is going so fast and I’m not really living it.”
[Jake:] “Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bull-fighters.”
Indeed living life all the way up can be a dangerous prospect. For an excellent article from Sports Illustrated dated 1955 concerning the life of a Matador click on the below link.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1130077/index.htm
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