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Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee…
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At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your…
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To choose a hardship for ourselves is our only defense against that hardship. This is what is meant by accepting suffering. Those…
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Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial thing, commonplace,…
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We never remember days, only moments.
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Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what…
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Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest - thought, action - is just a pastime, mental…
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The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
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You need a village, if only for the pleasure of leaving it. A village means that you are not alone, knowing that…
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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But here's the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean…
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When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause his child a needless…
— William Barclay
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Spiritual seekers particularly are on a quest to understand life; we want to examine our own lives and find meaning in what…
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As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more.
— Jules Renard
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The less I understand life, the more I live it!
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Dealing with people, my friends, is really nothing more than a question of the price that one is willing to pay. The…
— Gregor von Rezzori
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We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it
— Jules Renard
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Between me and life is a faint glass. No matter how sharply I see and understand life, I cannot touch it.
— Fernando Pessoa
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The happy and the suffering probably understand life equally well, but the sufferers may see a little more clearly how little it…
— James Richardson
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To read and write will help you understand life. . .to sew and mend will help you survive it.
— Gail Tsukiyama
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All finite things have their roots in the infinite, and if you wish to understand life at all, you cannot tear out…
— William Macneile Dixon
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Man is not made to understand life, but to live it.
— George Santayana
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As I understand life at different levels, I can use music to express what these levels feel like to me. Hopefully the…
— Yanni
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