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112747 Life quotes by 22590 unique authors
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India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight,…
— Sri Aurobindo
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Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
— Jane Austen
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We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
— Jane Austen
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I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
— Jane Austen
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They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.
— Jane Austen
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To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her…
— Jane Austen
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All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.
— Paul Auster
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Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.
— Paul Auster
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Money's important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don't have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life.
— Paul Auster
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People who don't like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that's how life is.
— Paul Auster
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I'm generous. I give good tips. It's just - the way I live my life, ironically enough, is: I don't want anything. I'm not a…
— Paul Auster
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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have…
— Diane Ackerman
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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
— Diane Ackerman
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I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.
— Diane Ackerman
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It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.
— Diane Ackerman
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It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take his own life…
— Emilie Autumn
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To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
— Teresa of Avila
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All blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding His life we find that He is the best example.
— Teresa of Avila
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The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate nurture. I defended myself against…
— Teresa of Avila
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I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation of His great magnificence and…
— Teresa of Avila
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I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the one hand, God…
— Teresa of Avila
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In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are…
— Teresa of Avila
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I don't trip on that much. I just like to enjoy life and be happy.
— Roy Ayers
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What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion animals, visiting parks and zoos to commune with other…
— Diane Ackerman
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You must pass your days in song. Let your whole life be a song.
— Sai Baba
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