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Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

Dancers are the athletes of God.

One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its ...

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Life without playing music is inconceivable for me. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in t...

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I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body a...

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The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and a...

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How was I able to live alone before, my little everything? Without you I lack self-confidence, passi...

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The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it.

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as th...

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I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the universit...

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Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer ...

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Something deeply hidden had to be behind things.

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

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Albert EinsteinEinstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism

The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the ...

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All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed t...

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Albert EinsteinOut of My Later Years: The Scientist

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed t...

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Albert EinsteinOut of My Later Years: The Scientist

To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad mem...

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There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.

Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another hum...

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The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

As we know life in ourselves we want to understand life in the universe in order to enter into harmo...

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By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.

Love . . . includes fellowship in suffering in joy and in effort.

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encount...

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Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - h...

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A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of hi...

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True philosophy must start from the most immediate and comprehensive fact of consciousness: 'I am li...

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In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices; there is only the life which...

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My father suffered much and toiled painfully all his life, for he had no resources other than the pr...

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When I call to mind my earliest impressions, I wonder whether the process ordinarily referred to as ...

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Aldo LeopoldA Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

The natural rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies.

At any given moment life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period it seems to reveal itsel...

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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy...

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Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in whic...

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Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he...

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Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to ...

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Believe it or not, a normal human being is one who can have an orgasm and is adjusted to his society...

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It was all extremely symbolic; but then, if you choose to think so, nothing in this world is not sym...

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One entered the world, Denis pursued, having ready-made ideas about everything. One had a philosophy...

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Eating, drinking, dying - three primary manifestations of the universal and impersonal life. Animals...

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I know some people who live this much more insulated life in Los Angeles, where their feet never tou...

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My life, in some ways, has been a half-measure. I didn't commit myself all the way to my marriage an...

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The campaign finance scandal in America is the global warming of American political life - with cash...

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the e...

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We must conquer life by living it to the full, and then we can go to meet death with a certain prest...

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Light, Life and Love are like three glow-worms at thy feet: the whole universe of stars, the dewdrop...

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Aleister CrowleyThe Vision and the Voice: With Commentary and Other Papers

Life is beautiful, what do you think? In the morning I say, 'Ah, I am alive still!' All my friends d...

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I want to liberate my imagination and my mind with every kind of movie. That is what I wanted to do ...

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Do not become attached to anything that can destroy you in the course of time.

I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any ob...

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I dedicate this to all those who did not live to tell it. And may they please forgive me for not hav...

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Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion e...

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The great truth for Innokenty used to be that we are given only one life.Now, with the new feeling t...

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I am extremely excited to develop and design a brand representative of my life, experiences and styl...

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I've never hosted a party in my life, not even my own birthday party. I'd feel really uncomfortable ...

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It's a game that just takes so much out of you. Every aspect of your life has to be very narrow, ver...

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The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to ...

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You are never lost in sorrow, it seems to me, ever. You do know the way. In fact, you don't think th...

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I do not recognize the right of the public to break in the front door of a man's private life in ord...

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Go to any small village anywhere in the world, and see what they remember. Everything. It's all ther...

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Alexander McCall SmithLa's Orchestra Saves the World

Regular maps have few surprises: their contour lines reveal where the Andes are, and are reasonably ...

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The vanity of human life is like a river constantly passing away and yet constantly coming on.

The previously unloved may find it hard to believe that they are now loved; that is such a miracle, ...

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It was time to take the pumpkin out of the pot and eat it. In the final analysis, that was what solv...

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We act out our lives to a soundtrack, thought Isabel, the music that becomes, for a spell, out favou...

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Alexander McCall SmithThe Right Attitude to Rain

There was a great deal of progress being made, right under their noses, particularly in Africa, and ...

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For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.

Oh let me live my own! and die so too! ("To live and die is all I have to do:") Maintain a poet's di...

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Alexander PopeAn Epistle from Mr. Pope

Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal likings.

Now that the wars are coming to an end, I wish you to prosper in peace. May all mortals from now on ...

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Dantes,rejected by all the world,frequently experienced a desire for solitude, and what solitude is ...

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My friend, let us enjoy the present and give no thought to the evils of the future.

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Alexandre DumasThe Count Of Monte Cristo / Le Comte De Monte Cristo: English French Parallel Text Edition

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with a...

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That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of y...

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Alexandre DumasThe Count of Monte Cristo

we said we would be to each other as two voices, who shadows.

Life is no more than the repeated fulfilling of a permanent desire.

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Alexandre DumasThe Lady of the Camellias

So, preferring death to capture, I accomplished the most astonishing deeds, and which, more then onc...

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Alexandre DumasThe Count of Monte Cristo

After which, satisfied with the way he had conducted himself at Meung, free of remorse for the past,...

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When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want...

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Alexandre DumasThe Count of Monte Cristo

Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real hap...

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Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, alway...

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Alexandre DumasThe Count of Monte Cristo

Never be afraid of opportunities, always be on the lookout for adventures.

Utterly sure of himself, convinced of his power, certain that the laws that governed other men could...

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I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.

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Alexandre DumasThe Three Musketeers

It is necessary ... to yield to the storm, purchase a peace, and wait patiently for better times.

Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.

The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.

Amongst democratic nations men easily attain a certain equality of conditions: they can never attain...

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Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to sit...

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In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who s...

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Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be...

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A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.

Love those wrongdoers, they need it more than you.

There are two ways to slide easily through life to believe everything or doubt everything. Both way...

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If we analyse the classes of life, we readily find that there are three cardinal classes which are r...

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Indeed neither life nor science bothers about "essences"-they leave "essences" to metaphysics, which...

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