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Paulo Coelho quote: "Usually the threat of death makes people a lot more aware of..."
Usually the threat of death makes people a lot more aware of their lives. Paulo Coelho
Do what we may to shape the mysterious stuff of which our lives are composed, the dark threads of our destiny will always re-emerge. Victor Hugo
And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers - shriveled now, and brown and flat and brittle - to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of men. H. G. Wells
Kim Stanley Robinson quote: "Desire is life trying to continue to be life. All living..."
Desire is life trying to continue to be life. All living things desire... Life is wanting. Kim Stanley Robinson
Oh, he did his best to make their short lives miserable, because that was his job, but nothing he could think up was half as bad as the stuff they thought up themselves. Terry Prachett
to have compassion (co-feeling) means not only to be able to live with other's misfortune but also to feel with him any emotion -joy , anxiety, happiness, pain Milan Kundera
T. E. Lawrence quote: "We lived always in the stretch or sag of nerves, either on the..."
We lived always in the stretch or sag of nerves, either on the crest or in the trough of waves of feeling. T. E. Lawrence
A level of a house, his father has told him, is called a story. Nathaniel likes that. It makes him feel like may be he is living between the covers of a book himself. Like may be everyone in every home is sure to get a happy ending. Jodi Picoult
I have lived for over three hundred years. In that time, the ideal of beauty has changed many times. Large breasts, small, thin, curved, tall, short, they have all been the height of beauty at one time or another. But in all that time, ma petite, I have never desired anyone the way I desire you."- Jean-Claude Laurell K. Hamilton
John Irving quote: "No one could have fathomed what a life he'd led, for it was..."
No one could have fathomed what a life he'd led, for it was chiefly a life lived in his mind. John Irving
Fundamentally, I started writing to save my life. Yes, my own life first. I see the same impulse in my students-the dark, the queer, the mixed-blood, the violated-turning to the written page with a relentless passion, a drive to avenge their own silence, invisibility, and erasure as living, innately expressive human beings. Cherrie Moraga
Their boredom becomes more and more terrible. They realize that they’ve been tricked and burn with resentment. Every day of their lives they read the newspapers and went to the movies. Both fed them on lynchings, murder, sex crimes, explosions, wrecks, love nests, fires, miracles, revolutions, war. This daily diet made sophisticates of them. The sun is a joke. Oranges can’t titillate their jaded palates. Nothing can ever be violent enough to make taut their slack minds and bodies. They have... Nathanael West
Alain de Botton quote: "Travel agents would be wiser to ask us what we hope to change..."
Travel agents would be wiser to ask us what we hope to change about our lives rather than simply where we wish to go. Alain de Botton
The library was like a second home. Or maybe more like a real home, more than the place I lived in. By going every day I got to know all the lady librarians who worked there. They knew my name and always said hi. I was painfully shy, though, and could barely reply. Haruki Murakami
...a private hell was something you lived with alone, even when someone else's casual questions nudged old, raw wounds within yourself. Arthur Hailey

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