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The main criteria for life are self-duplication and conversion of foreign molecules into molecules identical to you.

From Nature • Oct. 12, 2011

It may be described therefore as a perpetual self-duplication of one and the same power into object and subject, which presuppose each other, and can exist only as antitheses.

From Biographia Literaria by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor