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  1. Lorrie Moore _ Like Life

    But it would be like going to Heaven and not finding any of your friends there. Her life would go all beatific and empty in the eyes.
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  2. Lorrie Moore _ Like Life

    She knew there were only small joys in life--the big ones were too complicated to be joys when you got all through--and once you realized that, it took a lot of the pressure off.
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  3. Irvin D. Yalom _ Momma and the Meaning of Life:

    -De aur? Chiar? Zau, Paula, ce poate fi de aur in privinta mortii? -Irv, m-a mustrat Paula, asta e o intrebare gresita! Incearca sa intelegi ca de aur nu e moartea, ci trairea deplina a vietii fata in fata cu moartea. Gandeste-te cat de intense si de pretioase sunt ultimele experiente: ultima primavara, ultimul zbor al pufului de papadie, ultima scuturare a florilor de wisteria. Perioada de aur este, spunea Paula, si vremea marii eliberari – o vreme in care ai libertatea sa zici nu tuturor obligatiilor banale, sa te dedici cu totul lucrurilor de care iti pasa cel mai tare – prezenta prietenilor, anotimpurile care se schimba, unduirea marii.
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  4. Elizabeth Gilbert _ Big Magic: Creative Living

    If you don't learn to travel comfortably alongside your fear, then you'll never be able to go anywhere interesting or do anything interesting.
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  5. Ned Vizzini _ It's Kind of a Funny Story

    I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.
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  6. Seamus Heaney

    The way we are living
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  7. Virginia Woolf _ The Years

    Millions of things came back to her. Atoms danced apart and massed themselves. But how did they compose what people called a life?
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  8. Ta-Nehisi Coates _ Between the World and Me

    You do not give your precious body to the billy clubs of Birmingham sheriffs, nor to the insidious activity of the streets.
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  9. James Salter _ Memorable Days: The Selected

    One is seduced and battered in turn. The result is presumably wisdom. Wisdom! We are clinging to life like lizards.Why is it so difficult to assemble those things that really matter in life and to dwell among them only? I am referring to certain landscapes, persons, beasts, books, rooms, meteorological conditions, fruits. In fact, I insist on it.A letter is like a poem, it leaps into life and shows very clearly the marks, perhaps I should say thumbprints, of an unwilling or unready composer.
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  10. Charlotte Brontë _ Jane Eyre

    My world had for some years been Lowood: my experience had been of its rules and systems; now I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitements, awaited those who had courage to go forth into its expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst its perils.
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  11. Leo Tolstoy _ How Much Land Does a Man Need?

    The worker picked up Pakhom's spade, dug a grave, and buried him - six feet from head to heel, exactly the amount of land a man needs.
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  12. Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ Notes from Underground, White

    You see, gentlemen, reason is an excellent thing, there's no disputing that, but reason is nothing but reason and satisfies only the rational side of man's nature, while will is a manifestation of the whole life, that is, of the whole human life including reason and all the impulses. And although our life, in this manifestation of it, is often worthless, yet it is life and not simply extracting square roots. Here I, for instance, quite naturally want to live, in order to satisfy all my capacities for life, and not simply my capacity for reasoning, that is, not simply one twentieth of my capacity for life. What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning {some things, perhaps, it will never learn; this is a poor comfort, but why not say so frankly?} and human nature acts as a whole, with everything that is in it, consciously or unconsciously, and, even if it goes wrong, it lives.
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