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Life Quotes
"To give one's life is a right only when one gives it unselfishly."
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"If you've ever been in a position in your life where you just can't take any more, you just have to get through the next second, and the next second after that."
Life,
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"Each new step into his new human existence is frightening. It always means to give up a secure state, which was relatively known, for one which is new, which one has not yet mastered. Undoubtedly, if the infant could think at the moment of the severance of the umbilical cord, he would experience the fear of dying. A loving fate protects us from this first panic. But at any new step, at any new stage of our birth, we are afraid again. We are never free from two conflicting tendencies: one to emerge from the womb, from the animal form of existence into a more human existence, from bondage to freedom; another, to return to the womb, to nature, to certainty and security."
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"You're over there in the corner either thinking about the dead dog or whatever, you're bringing up your personal life and you need the space, and then somebody throws you a joke. Especially if it's an emotional scene, you don't want the joke."
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"But on the other hand I believe I'm a private person too, and I enjoy that aspect of my life as well."
Life,
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"I think I'm learning to be bolder in my career choices and be more confident in my personal life. I haven't always felt very secure as an individual, but now I feel I certain confidence and sense of self that gets me through the day a lot better than before."
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"Everything runs its course. We had told a lot of stories that happened in our life. My kid was getting older, and we were running out of stories to tell."
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"The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before."
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"I've got over so much. Mum wouldn't want anything to come into my life that would make me fragile again."
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"There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why."
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"The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications."
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"The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom."
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"In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great concern to his own law-enforcement officials, not to mention the nation."
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"You don't have to stick with these recipes. They're guides. As I say, they're a way in. Have fun with them. It's an easier way to cook in a busy life, once you get the hang of it."
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"When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about."
Life,
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"Let's live our lives with great meaning and purpose in the attempt to influence the world to whatever degree our circumstance allows."
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"I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life."
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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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"I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird."
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"Who can hide himself from death or who can embrace the wind?"
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"Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities."
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"Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up."
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