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The secret story is the one we'll never know, although we're living it from day to day, thinking we're alive, thinking we've got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn't matter. But every single damn thing matters! Only we don't realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, and we don't realize that's a lie.
Roberto Bolaño
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Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning; and life at that price is not worth living.
Gilbert Parker
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All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have expected.
Rudy Rucker
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without
A. R. Ammons
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Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquest...
Charles Lindbergh
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We shall continue to work for a Middle East that is free of strife and violence, living in harmony without the threat of terrorism or dangers of weapons of mass destruction.
Hosni Mubarak
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Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.
Miriam Beard
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I cannot always sympathize with that demand which we hear so frequently for cheap things. Things may be too cheap. They are too cheap when the man or woman who produces them upon the farm or the man or woman who produces them in the factory does not get out of them living wages with a margin for old age and for a dowry for the incidents that are to follow. I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth or shapes it into a garment will starve in the process.
Benjamin Harrison
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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
Gaston Bachelard
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No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress.
William Law
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Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
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People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.
Sparky Anderson
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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
Thomas Szasz
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Unless you can find some sort of LOYALTY, you cannot find unity and peace in your active living.
Josiah Royce
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There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. Surely these should never be confused in the mind of any man who has the slightest inkling of what culture is. For most of us it is essential that we should make a living... In the complications of modern life and with our increased accumulation of knowledge, it doubtless helps greatly to compress some years of experience into far fewer years by studying for a particular trade or profession in an institution; but that fact should not blind us to another—namely, that in so doing we are learning a trade or a profession, but are not getting a liberal education as human beings.
James Truslow Adams
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Fortunately art is a community effort – a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.
Allen Ginsberg
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Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity.
Julio Cortázar
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A nation is the same people living in the same place.
James Joyce
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The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
Peter Ustinov
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Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being?
Swami Vivekananda
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From too much love of living,
From hope and fear set free,
We thank with brief thanksgiving
Whatever gods may be
That no life lives for ever,
That dead men rise up never;
That even the weariest river
Winds somewhere safe to sea.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it.
Aaron Copland
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Life is simply the reification of the process of living.
Ernst Mayr
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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.
Lois McMaster Bujold
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The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.
Ronald Blythe
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