Life Quotes

The big one. What it means, how to live it, and why it's worth the effort.

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"El arte de vivir es el arte de amar."
Mariano Latorre
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"Every person carries within them a secret history."
Octavio Paz
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"The meaning of life is in the living, not in the destination."
Octavio Paz
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"Life is a work of art."
Vicente Huidobro
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"The self is not a fixed entity but a continuous work of creation."
Carlos Fuentes
"We mistake the performance of living for actually being alive."
José Donoso
"We carry within us all the people we have ever been."
José Donoso
"We are all translating ourselves for audiences we will never meet."
José Donoso
"We are all unreliable narrators of our own lives."
José Donoso
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"To live fully is to engage all our senses with consciousness."
Laura Esquivel
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"To taste fully is to experience the abundance of life itself."
Laura Esquivel
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"What we cook becomes part of who we are and who we become."
Laura Esquivel
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"Wherever your tree is planted, that is your home."
Gabriela Mistral
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"Life is offered to you like a blank check. You write the sum."
Gabriela Mistral
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"Every rose has its thorn, but we still love the rose."
Gabriela Mistral
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"Cada día es una nueva oportunidad para escribir nuestra propia historia."
Mariano Latorre
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"Vivir es elegir constantemente quiénes somos y quiénes queremos ser."
Mariano Latorre
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"To be creative is to be alive in the fullest sense"
Vicente Huidobro
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"To be alive is to be engaged in the struggle for meaning."
Ariel Dorfman
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"My soul is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake."
Pablo Neruda
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"What emerges out of death, emerges from these depths."
Pablo Neruda
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"In the middle of the night I realize my life was being narrated."
Pablo Neruda
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"I want to live while you live."
Pablo Neruda
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"I want to be beaten and blue and lost to feel awake."
Pablo Neruda
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"I came here to live out loud."
Pablo Neruda
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"We survive on food, but we live on the love that seasons it."
Laura Esquivel
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"We are made of all those who have built and broken us."
Isabel Allende
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"We are all willing prisoners of our own habits."
Isabel Allende
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"Life is a precious gift, treat it as such."
Isabel Allende
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"Life is the rough draft; art is the final work."
Vicente Huidobro