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"We cannot put off living until we are ready."
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"Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live and a good day to die. Every day is also an apt time to learn and express joy and love for the entire natural world. Each day is an apt time to make contact with other people and express empathy for the entire world. Each day is perfect to accept with indifference all aspects of being."

"Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer."

"It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly."

"Don't look for meaning in life. It was meant to be lived not understood."
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"There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other."


"Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be."


"Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions."


"The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities."


"Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be."


"The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him."
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