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I examine my own being, and find there a world, but a world rather of imagination and dim desires, than of distinctness and living power. Then everything swims before my senses, and I smile and dream while pursuing my way through the world. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Perfection shall remain the boring privilege of the gods, while our bungling, messy world every night shall be lived as if it were the last and every day as if it were the first. Eduardo Galeano
My dying tutor told me that he would like to live till I had been a poet, but Death was much of Mob as I could master-then-And when far afterward-a sudden light on Orchards, or a new fashion in the wind troubled my attention- I felt a palsy, here- the Verses just relieve-" (174) Emily Dickinson
Jean Genet quote: "[Y]ou're in a fog. When you circle round, you watch us live...."
[Y]ou're in a fog. When you circle round, you watch us live. You watch us struggle and you're envious. Jean Genet
I think that where you go wrong is that you imagine that your reasons for living ought to fall on you, ready-made from heaven, whereas we have to find them for ourselves. Simone de Beauvoir
Haruki Murakami quote: "If you want everything to be nice and straight all the time,..."
If you want everything to be nice and straight all the time, then go live in a world made with a triungular ruler. Haruki Murakami
Stephen King quote: "You have to live where you wake up, even if somebody else..."
You have to live where you wake up, even if somebody else dreamed you there. Stephen King
My dear children, I am very anxious that you should know something about the History of Jesus Christ. For everybody ought to know Him. No one ever lived, who was so good, so kind, so gentle, and so sorry for all people who did wrong, or were in anyway ill or miserable, as he was. And as he is now in Heaven, where we hope to go, and all to meet each other after we are dead, and there be happy always together, you never can think what a good place Heaven is, without knowing who he was and... Charles Dickens
It's the living, the eating, the sleeping that everyone needs. Ideas don't matter so much after all. My three best friends are Catholic. I can't see their beliefs, but I can see the things they love to do on earth. When you come right down to it, I do believe in the freedom of the individua? Sylvia Plath
...So that someone might want to put you in a book...So that you may be worth putting in a book...Live like a hero...Be a main character. Otherwise, what is life for? J. M. Coetzee
You have been my friend," replied Charlotte. "That in itself is a tremendous thing...after all, what's a life anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die...By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that. E. B. White
Dante Alighieri quote: "Here pity only lives when it is dead - Virgil"
Here pity only lives when it is dead - Virgil Dante Alighieri
George R. R. Martin quote: "she would die as she had lived, with an axe in her hand and a..."
she would die as she had lived, with an axe in her hand and a laugh upon her lips. George R. R. Martin
Man, he lives in jerks -- baby born an' a man dies, an' that's a jerkk -- gets a farm an' loses his farm, an' that's a jerk. Woman, it's all one flow, like a stream, little eddies, little waterfalls, but the river, it goes right on. Woman looks at it like that. We ain't gonna die out. People is goin' on -- changin' a little, maybe, but goin' right on. John Steinbeck
As usual, it struck me that letters were the only really satisfactory form of literature. They give one the facts so amazingly, don't they? I felt when I got to the end that I'd lived for years in that set. But oh dearie me I am glad that I'm not in it! Lytton Strachey

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