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Life Quotes by Etgar Keret
- Writing is a way of living other lives. It is a way of expanding your life. It's not actually living a different life, it just…
- There were lots of lies along the way in life. Lies without arms, lies that were ill, lies that did harm, lies that could kill.…
- What you experience in the army, aged 18 to 21, is what you take through all your life. You cross invisible lines: you shoot someone,…
- In the army you feel violated - there's no private space. Writing was a life-saver, a way of recovering private territory.
- Being ambivalent doesn't mean that you're a relevatist, that anything goes; it just means that you show the complexity of life. Life is always complex.
- Generally, all my life, I have had strong friction with life - I was a problematic soldier, I was kicked out of the army, I…
- I tried once in my life to write a novel. I had written something like 80 pages of it when my laptop got stolen. When…
- Maybe in the general scheme of things he couldn't find any meaning in life, but on a smaller scale it was okay. Not always, but…
- He felt full of a dense and sour substance that was blocking his chest, and it wasn't grief. After all those years, life now seemed…
- I have always thought that Heaven is a place for people who had had a good life, but that is not true. God is merciful…
- To what extent does anybody control his destiny? Life is very much like falling of the edge of a cliff. You have complete freedom to…
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