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The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it. -- Elizabeth Drew |
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If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.
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To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. -- Emily Dickinson |
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The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive. -- Ernest Becker |
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Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die. -- F. Forrester Church |
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And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh. -- Friedrich Nietzsche |
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Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life. -- George Sand |
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Nothing else matters much -- not wealth, nor learning, nor even health -- without this gift: the spiritual capacity to keep zest in living. This is the creed of creeds, the final deposit and distillation of all important faiths: that you should be able to believe in life. -- Harry Emerson Fosdick |
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People do not live nowadays - they get about ten percent out of life. -- Isadora Duncan |
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Everything has been figured out, except how to live. -- Jean-Paul Sartre |
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Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. -- Helen Keller |
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