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life - Bilingual quotes that celebrate the beauty of language, showcasing meaningful expressions in two unique perspectives.
Saul Bellow
Towards the end of your life you have something like a pain schedule to fill out-a long schedule like a federal document, only it's your pain schedule. Endless categories. First, physical causes-like arthritis, gallstones, menstrual cramps. New category, injured vanity, betrayal, swindle, injustice. But the hardest items of all have to do with love. The question then is: So why does everybody persist? If love cuts them up so much....
Saul Bellow
With one long breath, caught and held in his chest, he fought his sadness over his solitary life. Don't cry, you idiot! Live or die, but don't poison everything...
Philip Gourevitch
This is what fascinates me most in existence: the peculiar necessity of imagining what is, in fact, real.
Tobias Wolff
a true piece of writing is a dangerous thing. It can change your life.
George Eliot
My dear Mrs Casaubon, said Farebrother, smiling gently at her ardour, character is not cut in marble - it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.Then it may be rescued and healed, said Dorothea.
Raymond Carver
Then I said something. I said, Suppose, just suppose, nothing had ever happened. Suppose this was for the first time. Just suppose. It doesn't hurt to suppose. Say none of the other had ever happened. You know what I mean? Then what? I said.
Raymond Carver
There was this funny thing of anything could happen now that we realized everything had.
Raymond Carver
So early it's still almost dark out.I'm near the window with coffee,and the usual early morning stuffthat passes for thought.When I see the boy and his friendwalking up the roadto deliver the newspaper.They wear caps and sweaters,and one boy has a bag over his shoulder.They are so happythey aren't saying anything, these boys.I think if they could, they would takeeach other's arm.It's early in the morning,and they are doing this thing together.They come on, slowly.The sky is taking on light,though the moon still hangs pale over the water.Such beauty that for a minutedeath and ambition, even love,doesn't enter into this.Happiness. It comes o
Charles R. Swindoll
Believe me, once you have tasted worship-the kind of worship that captures your heart and rivets your full attention on the living Lord-nothing less satisfies. Nothing else even comes close. Once you have tasted true worship, you will never want to play church again.
Ray Bradbury
Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds.
Ray Bradbury
Everything that happens before Death is what counts.
Ray Bradbury
Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.
Christopher Fowler
I suppose the worst thing isn't that there might be nothing after death, but that there might be nothing before it.
Christopher Fowler
Life is a very beautiful dream, he thought. I'm so glad I chose not to wake up from it just yet.
Ken Kesey
This world… belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak.
Ken Kesey
You had a choice: you could either strain and look at things that appeared in front of you in the fog, painful as it might be, or you could relax and lose yourself
Elie Wiesel
Humanity? Humanity is not concerned with us. Today anything is allowed. Anything is possible.
C.S. Lewis
I wish I had never been born," she said. "What are we born for?" "For infinite happiness," said the Spirit. "You can step out into it at any moment...
C.S. Lewis
Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself.
C.S. Lewis
The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life -- the life God is sending one day by day.
Roald Dahl
Listening to my father during those early years, I began to realise how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. He taught me that if you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good, either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be.
Anaïs Nin
In our twenties we have conflicts. We think everything is either-or, black or white: we are caught between them and we lose all our energy in the conflicts. My answer, later on in maturity, was to do them all. Not to exclude any, not to make a choice. I wanted to be everything. And I took everything in, and the more you take in, the more strength you find waiting to accomplish things and to expand your life, instead of the other {which is what we have been taught to do} which is to look for structure and to fear change, above all to fear change. Now I didn't fear change.
Anaïs Nin
Djuna had wanted a life of desire and freedom, not luxury but beauty, not security but fulfillment, not perfection but a perfect moment like this one...
Arturo Pérez-Reverte
It's odd how, against all logic, one clings to life in inverse proportion to the quantity of life one has left to look forward to.
Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Besides, life is a succession of events that link up with each other whether one wants them to or not.
James Joyce
To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom.
William Faulkner
I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.
Diana Gabaldon
The colors of living things begin to fade with the last breath, and the soft, springy skin and supple muscle rot within weeks. But the bones sometimes remain, faithful echoes of the shape, to bear some last faint witness to the glory of what was.
Jeffrey Eugenides
What really mattered in life, what gave it weight, was death.
Jeffrey Eugenides
I am living through days as happy as those God keeps for his chosen people; and whatever becomes of me, I can never say that I have not tasted the purest joys of life.
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