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life - Bilingual quotes that celebrate the beauty of language, showcasing meaningful expressions in two unique perspectives.
Milan Kundera
He yearned to step out of his life the way one steps out of a house into the street.
Milan Kundera
Most people willingly deceive themselves with a doubly false faith; they believe in eternal memory {of men, things, deeds, peoples} and in rectification {of deeds, errors, sins, injustice}. Both are sham. The truth lies at the opposite end of the scale: everything will be forgotten and nothing will be rectified. All rectification {both vengeance and forgiveness} will be taken over by oblivion.
Milan Kundera
People meet in the course of life, they talk together, they discuss, they quarrel, without realizing that they're talking to one another across a distance, each from an observation post standing in a different place in time.
Milan Kundera
Because beyond their practical function, all gestures have a meaning that exceeds the intention of those who make them; when people in bathing suits fling themselves into the water, it is joy itself that shows in the gesture, notwithstanding any sadness the divers may actually feel. When someone jumps into the water fully clothed, it is another thing entirely: the only person who jumps into the water fully clothed is a person trying to drown; and a person trying to drown does not dive headfirst; he lets himself fall: thus speaks the immemorial language of gestures.
Milan Kundera
...because love is continual interrogation. I don't know of a better definition of love.
Milan Kundera
And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.
Franz Kafka
All human mistakes are impatience, early breakage of the methodological, apparent indenting of the apparent thing.
Ian McEwan
And though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you.
Jonathan Safran Foer
There are worse things, worse than being like us. Look, at least we're alive.
Jonathan Safran Foer
One can build a perfect home, but not live in it.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Books are for those without real lives, he thought. And they are no real replacement.
Jonathan Safran Foer
{...}It is as if after surviving so much, there was no longer reason to survive.
Jonathan Safran Foer
And how can you say I love you to someone you love? I rolled onto my side and fell asleep next to her. Here is the point of everything I have been trying to tell you, Oskar. It's always necessary.
Jonathan Safran Foer
The disgraced Usurer Yankel D took the baby girl home that evening... He made a bed of crumpled newspaper in a deep baking pan and gently tucked it in the oven, so that she wouldn't be disturbed by the noise of the small falls outside... When he pulled her out to feed her or just hold her, her body was tattooed with the newsprint... Sometimes he would rock her to sleep in his arms, and read her left to right, and know everything he needed to know about the world. If it wasn't written on her, it wasn't important to him.
Jonathan Safran Foer
But I knew the truth and that's why I was so sad. Every moment before this one depends on this one. Everything in the history of the world can be proven wrong in one moment.
Jonathan Safran Foer
If we were to one day encounter a form of life more powerful and intelligent than our own, and it regarded us as we regard fish, what would be our argument against being eaten?
Jonathan Safran Foer
It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
Thomas Pynchon
Paranoia is garlic in the kitchen of life, you can always put a little more, right?
James Clavell
Now you become a rock where the waves of life will hit in vain ...
Roxane Gay
If you're reading to find friends, you're in deep trouble. We read to find life, in all its possibilities.
Walt Disney Company
The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.
M.J. Rose
The business of living can steal away the wonder of life.
Christine Feehan
I'm an observer. I read about life. I research life. I find a corner in a room and melt into it. I can become invisible. It's an art, and I am a wonderful practitioner.
Christine Feehan
Life gives us choices. You either grab on with both hands and just go for it, or you sit on the sidelines.
Robert Jordan
Life is a dream from which we all must wake before we can dream again.
Matthew Pearl
Longfellow smiled. A great part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, my dear Lowell, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
Robert Kurson
Life is a matter of luck, and the odds in favor of success are in no way enhanced by extreme caution.- WWII German U-Boat Commander Eric Topp
Katie McGarry
Why is it when people are proud of me that my life sucks?Because growing up means making tough choices, and doing the right thing doesn't necessarily mean doing the thing that feels good.
Katie McGarry
Alexander shifted in my arms. God, he was so small, and from the giddy looks on my father's and Ashley's faces, they already worshiped him. We all started off this way, small little bundles of joy. Me, Aires, Noah, Lila, Isaiah, and even Beth. At some point, someone held and loved us, but somewhere along the way, it all got screwed up.
Katie McGarry
We all started off this way - small little bundles of joy. Me, Aires, Noah, Lila, Isaiah and even Beth. At some point, someone held us and loved us, but somewhere along the way, it all got screwed up.
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by Mitch Albom
You say you should have died instead of me. But during my time on earth, people died instead of me, too. It happens every day. When lightning strikes a minute after you are gone, or an airplane crashes that you might have been on. When your colleague falls ill and you do not. We think such things are random. But there is a balance to it all. One withers, another grows. Birth and death are part of a whole.
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Where there's bluster, thinks Luisa, there's duplicity
by David Mitchell
But an ink brush, she thinks, is a skeleton key for a prisoner's mind.
by David Mitchell
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