Life Quotes
The big one. What it means, how to live it, and why it's worth the effort.
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"Life swarms with innocent monsters."Charles Baudelaire
"The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, but to be lived."Charles Baudelaire
"I believe that I was born in evil days."Charles Baudelaire
"Art, love, and beauty are the only things that matter in life."Charles Baudelaire
"We live in succession, we live in parts, wholes."Charles Baudelaire
"Life without philosophy is like a ship without a compass."Denis Diderot
"Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced."Denis Diderot
"Passion without direction is chaos; direction without passion is sterility."Denis Diderot
"The heart knows truths that reason cannot comprehend."Pierre Corneille
"Life's greatest lessons are taught by sorrow, not by joy."Pierre Corneille
"Sensibility is the capacity to be moved, and the greater a man's sensibility, the greater his capacity for joy and sorrow."Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"In the human heart there is a perpetual struggle between a thousand different impulses."Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"I felt before I thought; this has been the condition of my existence."Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"To preserve one's nature is to preserve oneself."Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"The human heart has hidden treasures, in secret kept, in silence sealed."Molière
"To live without passion is to exist without truly living."Molière
"Life is a stage, but the script is written as we go."Molière
"We are all condemned to death, but we live as if we were immortal."Jean Racine
"The greatest tragedy is not to die, but to die having never truly lived."Jean Racine
"Each moment is a choice to live authentically or to hide behind pretense."Jean Racine
"The best is the enemy of the good."Voltaire
"The pursuit of the perfect ruins the good."Voltaire
"To be bored is to be deprived of self."Voltaire
"Life is the farce we must endure"Arthur Rimbaud
"Life is a beautiful struggle"Arthur Rimbaud
"Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced."Paul Verlaine
"Life is a journey, not a destination."Paul Verlaine
"One should always be drunk. That's all that matters. But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, choose your own. But get drunk."Charles Baudelaire
"I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror."Charles Baudelaire
"Life is a constant battle between desire and duty."Charles Baudelaire