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Life Quotes by J M Coetzee
- Some years ago I wrote a book called The House on Eccles Street. To write this book I had to think my way into the…
- Anyone who says that life matters less to an animal than it does to us has not held in his hands an animal fighting for…
- The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right…
- The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more…
- Speaking the words he had been taught, directing them no longer upward but to the earth on which he knelt, he prayed: 'For what we…
- In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation,…
- Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?
- But the truth, he knows, is otherwise. His pleasure in living has been snuffed out. Like a leaf on a stream, like a puffball on…
- Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy,…
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- 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