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
"To be poor is to understand the world with piercing clarity."Pier Paolo Pasolini
"Life is what happens in the spaces between official narratives."Pier Paolo Pasolini
"Life is what happens while we make other plans."Federigo Tozzi
"Life is the question whose answer we die searching for."Federigo Tozzi
"The aims of life are the best defense against death."Primo Levi
"To be alive is to carry contradictions within yourself."Elsa Morante
"To be human is to be forever caught between who we are and who we might be."Elsa Morante
"In every person lives an entire world waiting to be discovered."Elio Vittorini
"The heart knows truths that the mind has yet to understand."Elio Vittorini
"Life is the space between questions and answers."Dino Buzzati
"Every person contains multitudes."Dino Buzzati
"One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's troubles does not make it better."Cesare Pavese
"Death will come when it comes. Until then, we must live."Cesare Pavese
"No one who has ever lived has escaped pain."Cesare Pavese
"The ordinary life contains extraordinary moments if we know how to see them."Federigo Tozzi
"We live not in the present, but in our memories of it."Federigo Tozzi
"Legacy is not what we leave behind, but what we change in others."Federigo Tozzi
"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
"The details of ordinary life contain infinite meaning."Elsa Morante
"To be alive is to be constantly surprised by pain."Elsa Morante
"Life is the art of learning how to live."Elsa Morante
"To know the world one must construct it."Cesare Pavese
"A man's life is made up of compromises and adaptations."Cesare Pavese
"We are more alike than different."Cesare Pavese
"We become what we practice."Cesare Pavese
"Life is the greatest teacher."Cesare Pavese