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Life Quotes
"It is the same in life: sometimes it is more difficult to make a scene than to die."
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"I guessed she must be, at most, twenty, but there was something about her manner that made me think she could be ageless. She seemed trapped in that state of perpetual youth reserved for mannequins in shop windows."
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"He answered the phone to his daughter with a broken but joyous heart, ready to speak with her of astonishment and wonder."
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"In all the flames of fire fume's left the traceInto the bluest sea the sky is drownedThe miracles of life can you embraceFrom the poem 'Can You Embrace?"
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"A happy life consists in tranquility of mind."
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"I got married. A bright past is ahead of me!"
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"He would now have comprehended that work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that play consists of whaterver a body is not obliged to do. And this would help him to understand why construcing artificial flowers or performing on a tread-mill, is work, whilst rolling nine-pins or climbing Mont Blanc is only amusement. There are wealthy gentlemen in England who drive four-horse passenger-coaches twenty or thirty miles on a daily line, in the summer, because the privilege costs them considerable money; but if they were offered wages for the service that would turn it into work, then they would resign."
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"Our tragedy is that we forget it might be someone else first."
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"Sitting in the wicker rocking chair with her interrupted work in her lap, Amaranta watched Aureliano José, his chin covered with foam, stropping his razor to give himself his first shave. His blackheads bled and he cut his upper lip as he tried to shape a mustache of blond fuzz, and when it was all over he looked the same as before, but the laborious process gave Amaranta the feeling that she had begun to grow old at that moment."
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"I rather like the world. The flesh is pleasing and the Devil does not trouble me."
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"You can't get anywhere without the people who have come into your life."
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"Thought's a luxury. Do you think the peasant sits and thinks of God and Democracy when he gets inside his mud hut at night?"
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"Like a speeding trainI am passing by...I don't knowwhere I'm headingwith whom or whyall I know is thatI will never, everpass from here againall I know is I'm skidding forwardon this track of life."
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"Meg invited me to come again, but I always had reasons why I couldn't: my schedule was busy, bus fare wasn't cheap. Both of which were true, even if they weren't the truth."
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"The best thing about existence is that any moment in time can be a point of beginning to anything! In other words, every moment of our life holds a key for the unknown or the closed doors of new paths!"
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"Are you in control of your life, or are circumstances in control of you."
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"Wasn't much of a life anyway. Wasn't much of a brain.""But didn't you say you were satisfied with your life?""Word games," I dismissed. "Every army needs a flag."
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"Sleep, those little slices of death - how I loathe them."
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"Continuity in everything is unpleasant."
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"We have to let go of mistakes we can no longer do anything about and move forward with clarity, focus on positivity."
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"When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time-the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes-when there's a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she's gone, forever-there comes another day, and another specifically missing part."
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"Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning."
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"Doing nothing is hard. You never know when you're done. -T-SHIRT."
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"What other people think and say about you is none of your business. The most destructive thing you would ever do is to believe someone else's opinion of you. You have to stop letting other people's opinions control you."
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"If there were no heaven and no hell, I would still want to be a Christian because of what it does for our homes and our own families in this life."
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"My life has been one long descent into respectability."
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"Sometimes it feels as if everything in life is just something we haul into the grave."
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"They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person."
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"Even jellyfish have a life. So, what's your excuse?"
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"Our life is full of empty space."
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"Life is a never-ending poetry of love."
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