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Life Quotes
"I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director, the creative process is really amazing."
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"If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real."
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"In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature."
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"Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead."
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"What I wanted to do and what I needed to do was something entirely different, and through reading Roussel I learned that I could do what I wanted all on my own and that I didn't have to rely on what had actually happened in my somewhat limited life and reading."
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"I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me."
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"Just as in the second part of a verse bad poets seek a thought to fit their rhyme, so in the second half of their lives people tend to become more anxious about finding actions, positions, relationships that fit those of their earlier lives, so that everything harmonizes quite well on the surface: but their lives are no longer ruled by a strong thought, and instead, in its place, comes the intention of finding a rhyme."
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"There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life."
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"This all comes down to what we know about life on Earth."
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"This water was indeed a different thing from ordinary nourishment. Its sweetness was born of the walk under the stars, the song of the pulley, the effort of my arms. It was good for the heart, like a present."
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"For there is a price ticket on everything that puts a whizz into life, and adventure follows the rule. It's distressing, but there you are."
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"I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare."
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"If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable."
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"I've reached a place with my work where I'm ready to concentrate more on life."
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"Presumably there is indeed no purpose in the ultimate fate of the cosmos, but do any of us really tie our life's hopes to the ultimate fate of the cosmos anyway? Of course we don't; not if we are sane. Our lives are ruled by all sorts of closer, warmer, human ambitions and perceptions."
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"The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly-that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self. Of course, they are charitable. They feed the hungry and clothe the beggar. But their own souls starve, and are naked."
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"Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds."
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"I live a very dull life here... indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else."
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"The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms."
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"My view is that when in doubt, society should err on the side of life."
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"I'm 65 years old. Everyday the future looks a little bit darker. But the past, even the grimy parts of it, well, it just keeps on getting brighter all the time."
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"The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity."
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"I'm married now, so I have a life. I had to get a life. That's one thing I really had to do, you know. You do that kind of work on television series after television series and you don't have a life. So, that's part of what I did while I was gone, I got a life."
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"Nothing is as tedious as the limping days,When snowdrifts yearly cover all the ways,And ennui, sour fruit of incurious gloom,Assumes control of fate's immortal loom."
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"If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants."
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"The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others."
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"The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication."
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"A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be."
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