Life Quotes

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

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"We are all prisoners of our own biography."
Fernando Vallejo
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"We are all authors of our own tragedies."
Fernando Vallejo
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"We are all accomplices in our own destruction."
Fernando Vallejo
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"Life is a series of rehearsals for a performance that never comes."
Fernando Vallejo
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"We are all a little mad, and that's what makes us human."
Juan Carlos Onetti
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"Life is a series of disappointments punctuated by momentary joys."
Juan Carlos Onetti
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"The world is a stage, but most of us are poor actors."
Juan Carlos Onetti
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"Every human heart is an abyss."
Juan Carlos Onetti
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"We live in the space between what we are and what we wish to be."
Juan Carlos Onetti
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"Pain is the proof that we are alive."
Juan Carlos Onetti
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"The measure of a life is not its length but its depth."
Juan Carlos Onetti
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"Every life matters in the tapestry of history"
Rodolfo Walsh
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"To live is to witness; to witness is to act"
Rodolfo Walsh
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"Legacy is what we leave behind for others"
Rodolfo Walsh
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"The struggle gives meaning to existence"
Rodolfo Walsh
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"The greatest tragedy is not what we lose, but what we fail to become."
Alcides Arguedas
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"Every person carries within them the capacity for both greatness and failure."
Alcides Arguedas
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"To live authentically is to live in harmony with one's deepest convictions."
Alcides Arguedas
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"The greatest tragedy is a life lived without authenticity."
Ernesto Sabato
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"Memory is the only homeland we truly possess."
Haroldo Conti
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"Every life is a text waiting to be read."
Haroldo Conti
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"To live authentically is to live dangerously."
Haroldo Conti
"To live means to be slowly born."
Gabriel García Márquez
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"The greatest tragedy is not suffering, but meaningless suffering."
Fernando Vallejo
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"We are born into exile and die in exile."
Fernando Vallejo
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"We are victims of our own narratives."
Fernando Vallejo
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"We are all exiled from the paradise we never knew."
Fernando Vallejo
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"We are all servants of forces we cannot comprehend."
Fernando Vallejo
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"We die a thousand deaths before we die the final one."
Fernando Vallejo
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"Most people mistake routine for purpose."
Juan Carlos Onetti