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Life Quotes by Richard Flanagan
- Is it easier for a man to live his life again as a fish, than to accept the wonder of being human? So alone, so…
- We remember nothing. Maybe for a year or two. Maybe most of a life, if we live. Maybe. But then we will die, and who…
- I love words because you can only live one life, but in a novel, you can live a thousand: you contain multitudes.
- What is missed when people talk about books is the moment of grace when the reader creates the book, lends it the authority of their…
- War stories deal in death. War illuminates love, while love is the greatest expression of hope, without which any story rings untrue to life. And…
- I was born too late and missed the dream of empire. Its shadow, the Commonwealth, coincides with my life but rarely connected with it.
- Horror can be contained within a book, given form and meaning. But in life, horror has no more form than it does meaning. Horror just…
- The past is there, but life is circular. I have a strong sense of the circularity of time.
- I hate the way my life has been inexplicably overwhelmed by questionnaires. Life is so much stranger and so much more beautiful than the lists…
- Perhaps the virtue of coming from a place like Tasmania is that you had the great gift of knowing that you were not the centre…
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