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A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed — I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.
— Georges Clemenceau
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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
— Oscar Wilde
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Live every moment you have. Always look back, but never try to go back. Never forget who you are, or where you’ve been. Never try to become that person again. Let yourself change. Don’t avoid pain. Don’t be oblivious to reality, but don’t live in it. Don’t rush. Be the exact opposite of everyone else, naturally. Be afraid of the dark, and the light. And then conquer your fear. Shriveling back from your own greatness can be good. But not forever. Swelling past what you should be can be good. But not always. Take a breath, and be yourself. And then, in the next breath, take a different perspective. Never miss an opportunity to play in the rain, and get soaking wet. Get cold. Get hot. Live as much as you can, because you need something to write about. Don’t become. Be.
— Anonymous
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Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.
— Jean de La Bruyère
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The universe is flux, life is opinion.
— Marcus Aurelius
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We are all, always, the desire not to die. This desire is as immeasurable and varied as life's complexity, but at bottom this is what it is: To continue to be, to be more and more, to develop and to endure. All the force we have, all our energy and clearness of mind serve to intensify themselves in one way or another. We intensify ourselves with new impressions, new sensations, new ideas. We endeavour to take what we do not have and to add it to ourselves. Humanity is the desire for novelty founded upon the fear of death. That is what it is.
— Henri Barbusse
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Life — a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.
— Charles Lindbergh
