Life Quotes

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

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"Any life is made up of a single moment: the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is."
Jorge Luis Borges
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"Each moment of our lives contains all possible meanings."
Jorge Luis Borges
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"Every person is a protagonist in a narrative they may never understand."
Jorge Luis Borges
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"To live is to participate in the act of creation."
Jorge Luis Borges
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"Wanderer, there is no path. The path is made by walking."
Antonio Machado
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"Life is the only real thing we have, and we waste it with our doubts."
Antonio Machado
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"The purpose of life is to live it."
Antonio Machado
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"Life is what we make of it."
Antonio Machado
"Desire is the engine of existence; without it, we are merely ghosts."
Luis Cernuda
"Wounds are the price of having truly lived."
Luis Cernuda
"Passion is the evidence that we are not merely existing but truly alive."
Luis Cernuda
"The moment we truly feel is the moment we are most alive."
Luis Cernuda
"Desire is both our greatest burden and our greatest gift."
Luis Cernuda
"To live fully is to live with one foot always in darkness."
Luis Cernuda
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"To be alive is to be perpetually incomplete, and that is our beauty."
Juan Ramón Jiménez
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"I have learned that life is not measured in years, but in the moments that take our breath away."
Rafael Alberti
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"Memory is the canvas upon which we paint the meaning of our existence."
Rafael Alberti
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"The river flows not because it must but because it desires the sea"
Federico García Lorca
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"Life is a symphony where every note, even the discordant ones, matters"
Federico García Lorca
"Every person contains multitudes, like constellations within."
Leopoldo Lugones
"The child within us never truly leaves; it merely learns to hide."
Leopoldo Lugones
"The horizon always recedes as we approach it; we journey toward, never to."
Leopoldo Lugones
"To be human is to be constantly becoming; we are never finished."
Julio Cortázar
"Desire is the engine of all human endeavor, yet it remains forever incomplete."
Luis Cernuda
"We are shaped by what we love and what we lose."
Luis Cernuda
"Desire is the only proof we are truly alive."
Luis Cernuda
"We are all foreigners in the country of convention."
Luis Cernuda
"Every life is a poem written in the margins of history."
Luis Cernuda
"The greatest tragedy is a life unlived."
Luis Cernuda
"To be alive is to be perpetually unsatisfied."
Luis Cernuda