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Life Quotes
"The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes."
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"Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath."
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"The difference being that in films, unlike in life, good does always win over evil in the end."
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"Feel the pain. Feel the pleasure. As long as I'm living, I will enjoy every experience that I can. Happiness, glee, passion, peace, fear, pain, I want to feel it all, good or bad. I want to live, not in monotony, in utter craziness. I'm living not dying."
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"Being scared can keep a man from getting killed and often makes a better fighter of him."
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"The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence."
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"Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more."
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"When the shine is wearing off and the underlying cracks of a garlanded lifestyle become painfully apparent, reality may inexorably take its toll and gruelingly reveal the presence of a blatant and hideous gap of irrelevance and vanity. ['Could the milk man be the devil?']"
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"Well, I'm at some kind of crossroads in my life and I don't know which way to take. It's not about money, I mean, because I'm established enough now as a writer to get a reasonable advance if I wanted to do fiction."
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"There've been many a season where I couldn't get work, and I think that you learn character development and you learn how to really want what you do in life when you can't really do it."
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"Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life."
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"Find something that you're really interested in doing in your life. Pursue it, set goals, and commit yourself to excellence. Do the best you can."
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"All this is simply to say that all life is interrelated. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality; tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. As long as there is poverty in this world, no man can be totally rich even if he has a billion dollars. As long as diseases are rampant and millions of people cannot expect to live more than twenty or thirty years, no man can be totally healthy, even if he just got a clean bill of health from the finest clinic in America. Strangely enough, I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. You can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be."
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"I had enjoyed life in Paris, and, taking all things into consideration, enjoyed it wholesomely."
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"The songs are inspired by my experiences. Sometimes they are more than my real-life and, conversely, my life is more than just my songs."
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"We've observed that people who stall in their personal growth work often have counterproductive soft addictions that stand in their way of growth and having the life they say they want. It can be a simple thing, such as watching TV instead of finishing a project."
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"There are endings. There are beginnings. Sometimes they coincide, with the ending of one thing marking the beginning of another. But sometimes there is simply a long space after an ending, a time when it seems everything else has ended and nothing else can ever begin."
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"Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn."
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"If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the spirit."
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"The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity."
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"What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup."
Life,
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"One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is."
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"Misfortune never comes singly. It's surrounded by bodyguards."
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"It is well to be prepared for life as it is, but it is better to be prepared to make life better than it is."
Life,
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"Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations."
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"The last class of my old professor's life took place once a week in his house, by a window in the study where he could watch a small hibiscus plant shed its pink leaves."
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