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Living Quotes by Mark Twain
- Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. So many look to eradicate fear from their lives, when that is…
- Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. To live a fulfilled life, we…
- Man is the only slave. And he is the only animal who enslaves. He has always been a slave in one form or another, and…
- Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.
- A marriage...makes of two fractional lives a whole; it gives to two purposeless lives a work, and doubles the strength of each to perform it;…
- But the people cannot have wells, and so they take rain-water. Neither can they conveniently have cellars or graves, the town being built upon "made…
- I am living a new and exalted life of late. It steeps me in a sacred rapture to see a portrait develop and take soul…
- Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
- Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.
- The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
- Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
- The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A person who lives fully is prepared to die at any moment.
- Obscurity and competence - that is the life that is best worth living
- Obscurity and competence: That is the life that is worth living.
- Dont go around saying the world owes you a living,the world owes you nothing because it was here first
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- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
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