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 performing roles we invented for ourselves."
Juan Carlos Onetti
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"We measure our lives in small failures and smaller victories."
Juan Carlos Onetti
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"We build cities to keep the darkness at bay, but it follows us inside."
Juan Carlos Onetti
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"Cada persona es un universo de historias no contadas"
Tomás Carrasquilla
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"La vejez es un regalo que no todos tienen el privilegio de recibir"
Tomás Carrasquilla
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"La infancia es el paraíso que olvidamos cuando crecemos"
Tomás Carrasquilla
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"To be truly alive is to acknowledge the darkness within ourselves and within the world."
Ernesto Sabato
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"The human condition is fundamentally tragic, yet this tragedy can be transcendent."
Ernesto Sabato
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"The value of a life is not measured in achievements but in connections made."
Ernesto Sabato
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"To live authentically is to live dangerously, with full awareness of the abyss."
Ernesto Sabato
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"To be human is to be a mystery to ourselves, always partially unknown."
Ernesto Sabato
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"The narrative we construct becomes the life we actually live."
Haroldo Conti
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"To live authentically is to live in constant contradiction."
Haroldo Conti
"Life is a constant evolution of the spirit"
Leopoldo Lugones
"We are all destined to wander through labyrinths we cannot escape."
Gabriel García Márquez
"To be alive is to inhabit contradiction and find meaning within it."
Gabriel García Márquez
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"A life spent seeking truth is never wasted."
Rodolfo Walsh
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"A life of seeking truth is a life well lived."
Rodolfo Walsh
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"A life of witness is a life of purpose."
Rodolfo Walsh
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"A life lived for truth is a life well defended."
Rodolfo Walsh
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"The city is a woman who demands everything from you and gives you nothing in return."
Juan Carlos Onetti
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"Life is a series of small betrayals we call experience."
Juan Carlos Onetti
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"We live in the margins of our own stories."
Juan Carlos Onetti
"We live as if we were never going to die, and die as if we had never lived."
Julio Cortázar
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"The human condition is one of perpetual searching and never arriving."
Ernesto Sabato
"Life is what happens while you are making other plans."
Luis Cernuda
"To live is to choose; but to choose well, one must know oneself."
Luis Cernuda
"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."
Luis Cernuda
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"Life is made of little moments that matter."
Rafael Alberti
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"Legacy is what we leave behind."
Rafael Alberti