Life Quotes

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

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"To be alive is to be in constant tension with society."
Pier Paolo Pasolini
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"To be poor is to understand the world with piercing clarity."
Pier Paolo Pasolini
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"Life is what happens in the spaces between official narratives."
Pier Paolo Pasolini
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"Life is what happens while we make other plans."
Federigo Tozzi
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"Life is the question whose answer we die searching for."
Federigo Tozzi
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"The aims of life are the best defense against death."
Primo Levi
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"To be alive is to carry contradictions within yourself."
Elsa Morante
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"To be human is to be forever caught between who we are and who we might be."
Elsa Morante
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"In every person lives an entire world waiting to be discovered."
Elio Vittorini
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"The heart knows truths that the mind has yet to understand."
Elio Vittorini
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"Life is the space between questions and answers."
Dino Buzzati
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"Every person contains multitudes."
Dino Buzzati
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"One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's troubles does not make it better."
Cesare Pavese
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"Death will come when it comes. Until then, we must live."
Cesare Pavese
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"No one who has ever lived has escaped pain."
Cesare Pavese
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"The ordinary life contains extraordinary moments if we know how to see them."
Federigo Tozzi
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"We live not in the present, but in our memories of it."
Federigo Tozzi
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"Legacy is not what we leave behind, but what we change in others."
Federigo Tozzi
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"We are all works in progress, never finished."
Federigo Tozzi
"Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament."
Italo Svevo
"Life is too short to waste time on things that don't matter."
Italo Svevo
"We are the sum of our choices, not our circumstances."
Italo Svevo
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"The details of ordinary life contain infinite meaning."
Elsa Morante
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"To be alive is to be constantly surprised by pain."
Elsa Morante
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"Life is the art of learning how to live."
Elsa Morante
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"To know the world one must construct it."
Cesare Pavese
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"A man's life is made up of compromises and adaptations."
Cesare Pavese
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"We are more alike than different."
Cesare Pavese
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"We become what we practice."
Cesare Pavese
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"Life is the greatest teacher."
Cesare Pavese