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Life Quotes


"Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent."


"I once knew a house rather like The Land of Smiles - an old house occupied by a varied collection of young people, mainly students. However none of these people were true models for the characters in the book, though their way of life may have been."


"It is a curious thing, but I have been right in everything I have done and said in my life."


"I'm still strong and in the best shape to continue living my life."


"Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable."


"Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe."


"We have a good life when we manage to live with both satisfied and unsatisfied needs, when we are not obsessed by what is beyond our reach."


"Having a baby is one of the most wonderful things in your life, as well as the hardest thing in your life."


"When I start to write, words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private world to life that found its first expression through reading. I really dislike the romantic notion of the artist."


"I ask every Communist individually to set an example, by deeds and without pretense, a real example worthy of a man and a Communist, in restoring order, starting normal life, in resuming work and production, and in laying the foundations of an ordered life."


"It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice."
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"I am a friend of life, at 80 life tells me to behave like a woman and not like an old woman."


"Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last."


"When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it's a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity, like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it!"


"To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization."


"It's a non-stop invention, this game of life, and as soon as you think you've got it, you lose it."


"My kids are not known, and I think that is very important. So far they have lived a normal life, and will continue to do so. I feel they should have the possibility to live a free life without the burden of fame I have created."


"We cannot but feel uneasy about the losses caused by humanity themselves. Apart from the losses of life and property in destructive wars, the environment and natural resources are also being destroyed by human hands."


"Real victories are those that protect human life, not those that result from its destruction or emerge from its ashes."


"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."


"Not a living thing was to be seen and the cottages that sat huddled close to the ground remained fast shut; the smoke from the chimneys alone still gave a sign of life."
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