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I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?
As to conforming outwardly, and living your own life inwardly, I have not a very high opinion of that course
Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live
One should eat to live, not live to eat
Where a man can live, he can also live well
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing
To live is not merely to breathe: it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, senses, faculties, of all of our parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence
To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well
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