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"We cannot put off living until we are ready."
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"Having a job does not mean 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."
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"It might be arrogant to think that we're the only living creations in all of the solar systems that there are. Space is so vast."
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"Now, wages in the automobile industry are made up of two components, what we call base rates and the cost of living factor which is fed in by the operation of the escalator."
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"Monuments are for the living, not the dead."
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"This substance, which is manifold in its forms and protean in its transformations, has, in its state of living matter, one physiological name which has become familiar, that of protoplasm."
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"Life shouldn't be about survival alone but about living."
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"If I do a piece in my living room, if I practice it - and I have the tapes to prove this - it's not going to be as good as doing the same piece in front of an audience."
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"Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators."
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"This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and have been painted in a scale of normal living rather than an institutional scale."
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"In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will."
Life


"An idea is a putting truth in check-mate."
Truth


"Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do."
Living


"The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will."
Rights


"We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create."
Time


"The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent."
Life


"Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself."
Life


"We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself."
Man


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


"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."
Life
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