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Life Quotes by Aleksandar Hemon
- It is so much easier to deal with the dead than with the living. The dead are out of the way, merely characters from stories…
- The perfect borscht is what life should be but never is.
- One builds one's life in consistency; one invests it with the belief, however unsupported by reality, that one has always been what one is now,…
- I'll take any life in which I can make choices and have agency, and America is not a bad place for all that.
- I tend to wait for true stories to mature into fiction. Most of my fiction grew out of a long-germinating real-life situation.
- God knows our despair. God wants His chosen people to live in peace. God loves life, cares less about death. We need to live. I…
- For people who are displaced, you can reconstruct the story of your life from the objects you have access to, but if you don't have…
- I have two homes, like someone who leaves their hometown and/or parents and then establishes a life elsewhere. They might say that they're going home…
- Your memories become fantasies if they are not shared, and your life in all its triviality becomes a legend.
- There are moments in life when it is all turned inside out--what is real becomes unreal, what is unreal becomes tangible, and all your levelheaded…
- When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I…
- I loved you because there was no other place for me to go. We were married because we did not know what else to do…
- Because sometimes you have no control over life and it keeps you far away from who you love.
- The privilege of a middle-class, stable, bourgeois life is that you can pretend that you are not complicated and project yourself as a solid, uncomplicated…
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle