Life
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Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.
The World of Yesterday
If you don't believe there's a price for this sweet paradise, just remind me to show you the scars.
People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.
Our lives are a battlefield on which is fought a continuous war between the forces that are pledged to confirm our humanity and those determined to dismantle it; those who strive to build a protective wall around it, and those who wish to pull it down; those who seek to mould it and those committed to breaking it up; those who aim to open our eyes, to make us see the light and look to tomorrow (...) and those who wish to lull us into closing our eyes.
Unlike stories, real life, when it has passed, inclines toward obscurity, not clarity.
The Story of the Lost Child
In what disorder we lived, how many fragments of ourselves were scattered, as if to live were to explode into splinters.
The Story of the Lost Child
Battles in life are never won... Life's a continuous business, and so is success, and requires continuous effort.
New York Times (1989)
Do not think a man has done his full duty when he has performed the work assigned him. A man will never rise if he does only this. Promotion comes from exceptional work.
'From Oakland: How to Succeed in Life,' The Pittsburgh Bulletin (1903)
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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