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It is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives do we find life. I am convinced that the trues...

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You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen ...

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It would indeed be a sad misfortune if man were released from the necessity of work and struggle, fo...

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having nothing to struggleagainstthey have nothing to strugglefor.

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Charles BukowskiYou Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

Divine justice pursued its course; disasters came thick on me: I was forced to pass through the vall...

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That's my biggest struggle, is maintaining a personal romantic relationship. It takes a lot of effor...

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Through every struggle that I have been confronted with and have been subjected to - solitary confin...

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As a boy, the very words 'Liberty Bell' and 'Independence Hall' fired my imagination and made a prof...

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I feel that there has to be a purpose to what we do. If there was no hope at all, we should just sle...

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The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, i...

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I think when you begin to think of yourself as having achieved something, then there's nothing left ...

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Maybe I write because I’ve learned to show certain parts of my heart on the page that I still strugg...

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I wish everyone well, but you need to focus on yourself. You need to stop putting your hand out. Eve...

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My story is a freedom song of struggle. It is about finding one's purpose, how to overcome fear and ...

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Legionary life is beautiful, not because of riches, partying or the acquisition of luxury, but becau...

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The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One...

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Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youth...

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No wonder we cannot appreciate the really central Kafka joke: that the horrific struggle to establis...

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David Foster WallaceConsider the Lobster and Other Essays

Life is a struggle, from the agonies of birth to the railing against death. Devour or be devoured. T...

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We appealed to the conscience of the world. The world has no conscience. We have no one but ourselve...

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Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all k...

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When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them t...

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It's wearying, like Caliban buttonholing you in hell and telling you the struggle he's having gettin...

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That a work of creation struggles and insistently demands to be brought into being is a fact that no...

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Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever...

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When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice...

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Edmund BurkeThoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents: Volume 1 Paperback: 001

The culmination of a long struggle was 2013, which could clearly be labeled the Year of the Gay. Sta...

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The beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle,...

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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.

That competition and the struggle for existence is the mechanism behind this state of perpetual chan...

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The struggle of democratic secularism, religious tolerance, individual freedom and feminism against ...

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But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water, rest within arm's length of the shore! I mu...

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I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and fre...

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I have felt for the last 10 years I have had this battle I've been fighting so hard to have an educa...

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I met a lot of famous people when I was about 24. And none of them seemed very appealing. And so I d...

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Every teenager deals in his or her own sexuality and has to face it and figure out how it can coinci...

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Disobedience is essentially a prideful power struggle against someone in authority over us. It can b...

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat the redeeming things are not happ...

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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

Chinese combatants, men and women, inheritors of a millennial culture, are people of uncommon intell...

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Concerning this a man once said:Why such reluctance? If you only followed the parablesyou yourselves...

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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

Without a struggle, there can be no progress.

The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge mi...

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I am simply trying to struggle through life trying to do God's bidding.

A great battle is a terrible thing," the old knight said, "but in the midst of blood and carnage, th...

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Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfilmen...

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Every day sees humanity more victorious in the struggle with space and time.

The human mind is a lucky little local, passing accident which was totally unforeseen, and condemned...

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I’m using Mao as my inspiration. “Cast away illusions. Prepare for struggle.” I’m back in business, ...

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I dealt with legal questions in the interest of Adolf Hitler and the NSDAP and its members during th...

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For something to be great, there has to be some kind of trial or some type of struggle that actually...

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Sometimes life just hits you, right in the face. And it’s alright. Because I, for one, think it’s ki...

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You see, the point is that the strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very ...

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Henry JamesTheory of Fiction: Henry James

Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one...

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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity...

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Glimpses do ye seem to see of that mortally intolerable truth; that all deep, earnest thinking is bu...

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For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribe...

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(On the seeming futility of metaphysics) Why then has nature afflicted our reason with the restless ...

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It's gonna take a while. It's normal to take a while. You've just gotta fight your way through.

All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

Nezhdanov's heart began to beat violently and he lowered his eyes involuntarily. This girl, who had ...

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Like infants, when they are born into the world, God's children are not born again in the full posse...

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J. C. RyleChristian Leaders of the Eighteenth Century

I keep guitars that are, you know, the neck's a little bit bent and it's a little bit out of tune. I...

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The fact that we elected Obama was a sign that the black struggle inherent in the blues and so much ...

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Do you know why people like me are shy about being capitalists? Well, its because we, for as long as...

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You know, the period of World War I and the Roaring Twenties were really just about the same as toda...

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Many of our problems are broadly similar to those that undermined ... Norse Greenland, and that many...

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Jared DiamondCollapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

All it takes is a second and your whole life can get turned upside down.

We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - bec...

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... answered his knock with a smile, a short one forced through because she was at heart a warm pers...

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But a generation that does not aspire to seriousness, to meaning, is unworthy to walk in the shadow ...

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Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.

Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally. But in some of na...

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A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion...

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...and the break would never come as long as fear can turn to wrath.

We struggle with the right words to describe the design process at Apple. But it is very much about ...

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She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an...

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Jonathan Safran FoerEverything Is Illuminated

It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.

Anything approaching the change that came over his features I have never seen before, and hope never...

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He struggled with himself, too. I saw it -- I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul th...

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Wherever I was, I was happy. At peace. I knew that everyone I cared about was all right. I knew it. ...

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It's not a struggle to be on a diet. You feel lighter, and your spirit is lighter, too. But I love c...

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Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, op...

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The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear trut...

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It is wrong to try to avoid the struggle against imperialism under the pretext that independence and...

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People up today and down tomorrow, working this week and fired the next, beaten and baffled, but det...

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Question and AnswerDurban, Birmingham,Cape Town, Alabama,Johannesburg, Watts,The earth aroundStruggl...

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Langston HughesThe Panther and the Lash

I've always thought my strengths were I'm smart, and I have a good sense of humor. I definitely stru...

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The artist can not serve his struggle for freedom unless he subjectively assimilates the social cont...

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You can tell people of the need to struggle, but when the powerless start to see that they really ca...

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Leymah GboweeMighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood

I don't differentiate between black and Latino actors. We're in the same struggle to be represented ...

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We are all gifted, but we have to discover the gift, uncover the gift, nurture and develop the gift ...

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Architecture is always the will of the age conceived as space - nothing else. Until this simple trut...

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I think it is important that you have people from all different vanguards, from all different walks ...

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The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension... Life is bliss. It is eterna...

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We were learning to struggle. And we were learning how powerful we are when we speak.