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Life Quotes (page 280)

... I retraced my steps, walked up to her, and in another moment would have certainly said, "Madam!" if I had not known that that exclamation had been made a thousand times before in all Russian novels of high life. It was that alone that stopped me. Fyodor Dostoevsky
he [Llewelyn Powys] has always in mind the great touchstone Death & consequently life is always judged as how far it fits us, or compensates us, for ultimately dying. Philip Larkin
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "Was that life? Well then, once more!"
Was that life? Well then, once more! Friedrich Nietzsche
I could spend my whole life prying loose the secrets of the insane. These people are honest to a fault, and their naivety has no peer but my own. Andre Breton
You think it - wise - to trust Hagrid with something as important as this?"I would trust Hagrid with my life," said Dumbledore. J. K. Rowling
Charlotte Bronte quote: "Who but a coward would pass his whole life in hamlets; and for..."
Who but a coward would pass his whole life in hamlets; and for ever abandon his faculties to the eating rust of obscurity? Charlotte Bronte
That man who does not believe that each day contains an earlier, more sacred, and auroral hour than he has yet profaned, has despaired of life, and is pursuing a descending and darkening way. Henry David Thoreau
She loved him because he had brought her back to life. She had been like a caterpillar in a cocoon, and he had drawn her out and shown her that she was a butterfly. Ken Follet
I had to face the fact that I had been using my gay friends as props. They were always supposed to be funny and entertain me and praise me and listen to my problems, and their life was supposed to be a secret that no one wanted to hear about. I wanted them to stay in the “half closet. Tina Fey
The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it. Andre Gide
Virginia Woolf quote: "What did it mean to her, this thing she called life? Oh, it..."
What did it mean to her, this thing she called life? Oh, it was very queer. Virginia Woolf
It seemed to Scobie that life was immeasurably long. Couldn’t the test of man have been carried out in fewer years? Couldn’t we have committed our first major sin at seven, have ruined ourselves for love or hate at ten, have clutched at redemption on a fifteen-year-old deathbed? Graham Greene
The woods are never solitary– they are full of whispering, beckoning, friendly life. But the sea is a mighty soul, forever moaning of some great, unsharable sorrow which shuts it up into itself for all eternity. We can never pierce it’s infinite mystery– we may only wander, awed and spell-bound, on the outer fringe of it. The woods call us with a hundred voices, but the sea has one only– a mighty voice that drowns our souls in its majestic music. The woods are human, but the sea is of the... L. M. Montgomery
Steve Martin quote: "All of life’s riddles are answered in the movies."
All of life’s riddles are answered in the movies. Steve Martin
George R. R. Martin quote: "I think life is a jape. Yours, mine, everyone's"
I think life is a jape. Yours, mine, everyone's George R. R. Martin

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