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Sometimes the dying live more fiercely and wisely than the rest of us. (146)

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Julia CameronGod is No Laughing Matter

Life itself is the proper binge.

If variety is the spice of life, then my life must be one of the spiciest you ever heard of. A curry...

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I could have been a dental hygienist with nothing bad ever appearing in print about me, but that's n...

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My life at home gives me absolute joy. There are some days when, as soon as you've finished cooking ...

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I think women get caught up too much in having a plan - 'I'm going to get married at this age I'm go...

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I like to stay balanced in life, so I don't have to do some radical diet. I love my job, and I obvio...

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I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn'...

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What I love most about this crazy life is the adventure of it.

Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life... I live for the present alwa...

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He thought of trying to explain something he had recently noticed about himself: that if anyone insu...

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Perhaps grief, which destroys all patterns, destroys even more: the belief that any patterns exist. ...

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And what percentage of people take up the option to die off?’ She looked at me, her glance telling m...

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Julian BarnesA History of the World in 10½ Chapters

Arthur was frequently baffled by the complacency with which people went on with what they insouciant...

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And perhaps it was also the case that, for all a lifetime's internal struggling, you were finally no...

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Life … is a bit like reading. … If all your responses to a book have already been duplicated and exp...

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When I was still quite young I had a complete presentiment of life. It was like the nauseating smell...

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Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to yo...

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Julian BarnesFlaubert's Parrot

Remember the botched brothel-visit in L’Education sentimentale and remember its lesson. Do not parti...

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Mariac tells us about the books he's read, the painters he's liked, the plays he's seen. He finds hi...

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There is a grotesquerie to grief as well. You lose the sense of your existence being rational, or ju...

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In life, every ending is just the start of another story.

But life never lets you go, does it? You can't put down life the way you put down a book.

Life versus Death becomes, as Montaigne pointed out, Old Age versus Death.

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Julian BarnesNothing to Be Frightened Of

Life always refused simplicity.

It had been a slow and painful business, discovering that the theory of love did not match the reali...

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... forty's nothing, at fifty you're in your prime, sixty's the new forty, and so on.

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Julian BarnesThe Sense of an Ending

What was the point of having a situation worthy of fiction if the protagonist didn't behave as he wo...

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Back then, things were plainer: less money, no electronic devices, little fashion tyranny, no girlfr...

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Later on in life, you expect a bit of rest, don't you? You think you deserve it. I did, anyway. But ...

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This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature. Look at our parent...

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Is there anything more plausible than a second hand? And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or ...

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How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the l...

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Julian BarnesThe Sense of an Ending

You get towards the end of life - no, not life itself, but of something else: the end of any likelih...

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Julian BarnesThe Sense of an Ending

The law, and society, and religion all said it was impossible to be sane, healthy, and kill yourself...

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If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart,...

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Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honest...

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I never will have peace of mind. I'm not constructed that way. Some things in life can be horrible.

Creo que todos tenemos un poco de esa bella locura que nos mantiene andando cuando todo alrededor es...

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Our life is made by the death of others.

In the twentieth century nothing can better cure the anthropocentrism that is the author of all our ...

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Julio CortázarAround the Day in Eighty Worlds

We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd because we must believe.

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Julio CortázarAround the Day in Eighty Worlds

you have to live by fighting each other, it's the law, the only way that things areworth while but i...

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I listen to the people. That was a big reason for my life, maybe the main reason, I'm singing becaus...

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I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Bla...

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I was raised in a very humble environment, and I was always taught to be humble to the things that a...

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Today it is time for every child to have a right to life, right to freedom, right to health, right t...

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It was the secret to winning any contest, he said, in life or in the boxing ring – you just had to g...

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My greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

I am God's vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform l...

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Nothing in life is promised except death.

As I enter a new phase of life and my circle broadens, I start learning new things.

Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creeda...

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[T]he family is a school of compassion because it is here that we learn to live with other people. (...

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Karen ArmstrongTwelve Steps to a Compassionate Life

No matter what is happening in life or in the world - war, natural disaster, poor health, pain, the ...

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If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.

Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

I do my job like I breathe — so if I can’t breathe I’m in trouble.

Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair.

Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.

We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.

I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.

I never touch sugar, cheese, bread... I only like what I'm allowed to like. I'm beyond temptation. T...

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Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can gi...

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In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes, the discussion of fur is childis...

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I'm open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over.

Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.

People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.

I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.

I am a fashion person, and fashion is not only about clothes -- it's about all kinds of change

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from soc...

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A spider conducts operations that resemble those of a weaver, and a bee puts to shame many an archit...

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In a higher phase of communist society, after the enslaving subordination of the individual to the d...

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Karl MarxCritique of the Gotha Program

I'm not that lazy, but I don't need that much money. I lead a fairly simple life.

I think people would live a bit longer if they didn't know how old they were. Age puts restrictions ...

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I think happiness is a bit like a cake. If you have cake every single day of your life you'll get si...

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There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life....

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Mum and Dad were very much friends and up for life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was gro...

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My dad was very much a struggling actor and spent more of his life as a postman, as a member of a ta...

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There were nineteen years between my grandparents, and I was in a relationship for five years from t...

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So I won an Oscar. It's amazing. I've got that for the rest of my life for a performance I am proud ...

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What I am very, very moved and struck by is that so many people in the world are often living a life...

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By nature, I'm a very positive person, and because I'm happy in myself, and in my life, and I've got...

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I had an incredibly full life with my imagination: I used to have all sorts of trolls and things; I ...

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So does he live, seeking, finding, joying and suffering.

Edna felt depressed rather than soothed after leaving them. The little glimpse of domestic harmony w...

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Just to go into a shop without getting stared at would be nice. I mean, I don't walk around like, 'O...

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The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for t...

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Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of ...

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Left alone, no matter at what age or under what circumstance, you have to remake your life.

The calla lilies are in bloom again. Such a strange flower—suitable to any occasion. I carried them ...

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We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - bu...

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Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

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Katharine HepburnMe: Stories of My Life

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to...

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Query: Why am I so bitter against Life? And why do I see her as a rag-picker on the American cinema,...

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Katherine MansfieldJe ne parle pas français

Isn't life,' she stammered, 'isn't life--' But what life was she couldn't explain. No matter. He qui...

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Katherine MansfieldThe Garden Party and Other Stories

Sometimes it seemed to him that his life was delicate as a dandelion. One little puff from any direc...

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Katherine PatersonBridge to Terabithia

You think it's so great to die and make everyone cry and carry on. Well it ain't.