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Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "I love those who do not know how to live, except by going..."
I love those who do not know how to live, except by going under, for they are those who cross over. Friedrich Nietzsche
He had lived (without being aware of it) on those spiritual truths that he had sucked in with his mother's milk, but he had thought, not merely without recognition of these truths, but studiously ignoring them. Leo Tolstoy
I could even feel how perishable all my moments really were, how all my life they had come to me begging to be lived, to be cherished even. Sue Monk Kidd
Peter Ackroyd quote: "I was at peace with a world which afforded so much bounty, and..."
I was at peace with a world which afforded so much bounty, and began to enjoy living at the very end of time. Peter Ackroyd
She loved nothing in the world except this woman's son, wanted him alive more than anybody, but hadn't the least bit of control over the predator that lived inside her. Totally taken over by her anaconda love, she had no self left, no fears, no wants, no intelligence that was her own [...] Ruth heard the supplication in her words and it seemed to her that she was not looking at a person but at an impulse, a cell, a red corpuscle that neither knows nor understands why it is driven to spend its... Toni Morrison
I have murdered the lovely and the helpless; I have strangled the innocent as they slept, and grasped to death his throat who never injured me or any other living thing. I have devoted my creator, the select specimen of all that is worthy of love and admiration among men, to misery; I have pursued him even to that irremediable ruin. There he lies, white and cold in death. You hate me; but your abhorrence cannot equal that with which I regard myself. I look on the hands which executed the... Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Other people are likely not to be aware that those who pursue philosophy aright study nothing but dying and being dead. Now if this is true, it would be absurd to be eager for nothing but this all their lives, and then to be troubled when that came for which they had all along been eagerly practicing. Plato
Jose Saramago quote: "When all is said and done, what is clear is that all lives end..."
When all is said and done, what is clear is that all lives end before their time. Jose Saramago
Carl Sandburg quote: "Our lives are like a candle in the wind."
Our lives are like a candle in the wind. Carl Sandburg
I believe I am to have enough to live on for about eighteen months at anyrate, so that if I may not write beautiful books, I may at least read beautifulbooks; and what joy can be greater? Oscar Wilde
In the pathways between office and home and home and the houses of settled people there are always, ready to snap at you, the little perils of routine living, but there is no escape in the unplanned tangent, the sudden turn. James Thurber
Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it. Paul Theroux
Paulo Coelho quote: "Be crazy! But learn how to be crazy without being the center..."
Be crazy! But learn how to be crazy without being the center of attention. Be brave enough to live different. Paulo Coelho
Doug Coupland quote: "What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a..."
What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives. Doug Coupland
Lao Tzu quote: "Go to the people. Live with them, learn from them, love them."
Go to the people. Live with them, learn from them, love them. Lao Tzu

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