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The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one's own perfection, to make one's every dream a reality.

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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

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One can live for years sometimes without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into one single hour.

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I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood.

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To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.

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He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize

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It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

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Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men.

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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

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Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

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For what man has sought for is, indeed, neither pain nor pleasure, but simply Life. Man has sought to live intensely, fully, perfectly. When he can do so without exercising restraint on others, or suffering it ever, and his activities are all pleasurable to him, he will be saner, healthier, more civilised, more himself. Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.

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My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world.

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With the abolition of private property, then, we shall have true, beautiful, healthy Individualism. Nobody will waste his life in accumulating things, and the symbols for things. One will live. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

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Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.

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