"life of its own" meaning in English

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          "text": "take on a life of its own",
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          "ref": "1996, George Steiner, Tolstoy or Dostoevsky: An Essay in the Old Criticism, page 181:",
          "text": "Sartre rejects the notion that an imagined character possesses, in any rational sense, \"a life of its own\".",
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          "ref": "2002, John Seely Brown, Paul Duguid, The Social Life of Information, page 18:",
          "text": "[…], information takes on not only a speed of its own, but a life of its own.",
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          "ref": "2003, Kristin Hunter Lattany, The Lakestown Rebellion, page 185:",
          "text": "A massive hangover with a life of its own kept Fess pinned to his bed most of Sunday.",
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        "An independent existence with some characteristics of life."
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        "(idiomatic) An independent existence with some characteristics of life."
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