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"It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living."
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"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."
"Don't look for meaning in life. It was meant to be lived not understood."
"I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved."
"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases."
"If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave."
"I was a born troublemaker and might as well earn a living at it."
"In Paris, it used to feel like you were living in a museum. As beautiful as it was, it's still limited. But here you have just everything."
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"The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences."
"Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it."
"Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost."
"The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction."
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