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Fernando Pessoa quote: "Let's absurdify life, from east to west. Let us play..."
Let's absurdify life, from east to west. Let us play hide-and-seek with our consciousness of living. Fernando Pessoa
…The way is shut. ‘Then they halted and looked at him and saw that he lived still; but he did not look at them. The way is shut, his voice said again. It was made by those who are Dead, and the Dead keep it, until the time comes. The way is shut. J. R. R. Tolkien
Nicholas Sparks quote: "He lived a wounded life"
He lived a wounded life Nicholas Sparks
Selena Gomez quote: "you have the right to live a beautiful life"
you have the right to live a beautiful life Selena Gomez
He said,?Oh god, help her. Damn me, I deserve it, but let her live forever? This was the love he should have felt for every soul in the world: all the fear and the wish to save concentrated unjustly on the one child. He began to weep.... He thought: This is what I should feel all the time for everyone. Graham Greene
Albert Einstein quote: "The most important decision we make is whether we believe we..."
The most important decision we make is whether we believe we live in a friendly or hostile universe. Albert Einstein
But if a stranger in the train asks me my occupation, I never answer "writer" for fear that he may go on to ask me what I write, and to answer "poetry" would embarrass us both, for we both know that nobody can earn a living simply by writing poetry. W. H. Auden
I cannot remember my past, my nose, or the colour of my eyes, or what my general opinion of myself is. Only in moments of emergency, at a crossing, at a kerb, the wish to preservemy body springs out and seizes me and stops me , here, beforethis omnibus. We insist, it seems, on living. Then again, indifference descends. Virginia Woolf
He who can see truly in the midst of general infatuation is like a man whose watch keeps good time, when all clocks in the town in which he lives are wrong. He alone knows the right time; what use is that to him? Arthur Schopenhauer
Laws, it is said, are for the protection of the people. It's unfortunate that there are no statistics on the number of lives that are clobbered yearly as a result of laws: outmoded laws; laws that found their way onto the books as a result of ignorance, hysteria or political haymaking; antilife laws; biased laws; laws that pretend that reality is fixed and nature is definable; laws that deny people the right to refuse protection. A survey such as that could keep a dozen dull sociologists... Tom Robbins
Pure, hard-core liberals believe in a superior race. They think they're it. They believe they're more intelligent than the general run of mankind, better suited than the little people are to manage the little people's lives. They think they have the one true vision, the ability to solve all the moral dilemmas of the century. They prefer big government because that is the first step to totalitarianism, toward unquestioned rule by the elite. And of course they see themselves as the elite. Dean Koontz
If any man at this day sincerely believes that a proper division of local from federal authority, or any part of the Constitution, forbids the Federal Government to control as to slavery in the federal territories, he is right to say so, and to enforce his position by all truthful evidence and fair argument which he can. But he has no right to mislead others, who have less access to history, and less leisure to study it, into the false belief that "our fathers who framed the Government under... Abraham Lincoln
Josiah Royce quote: "Unless you can find some sort of loyalty, you cannot find..."
Unless you can find some sort of loyalty, you cannot find unity and peace in your active living. Josiah Royce
Amy Tan quote: "We are living in a world where everything is false. The..."
We are living in a world where everything is false. The society is like bright paint applied on top of rotten wood. Amy Tan
Our lives together, our duet, slso continues to evolve, and even if we can't go back to how it was, we're designing a good life for us, in spite of everything. [p. 310] Diane Ackerman

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