Life Quotes

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

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"The value of life is measured not in years but in moments of truth"
Guy de Maupassant
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"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a gift to be received."
George Sand
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"Life has no smooth road for any of us."
George Sand
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"A woman is not written in books and lined papers."
George Sand
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"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."
George Sand
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"We live in perpetual mourning for what we might have been."
Gérard de Nerval
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"To live authentically is to embrace one's own contradictions."
Victor Leconte de Lisle
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"The art of living is the art of letting go."
Victor Leconte de Lisle
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"In the garden of human experience, both weeds and flowers have their place."
Victor Leconte de Lisle
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"The great irony is that we are almost never unhappy in the way we expected."
Stendhal
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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
Alexandre Dumas, fils
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"Life is a novel which writes itself."
Alexandre Dumas, fils
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"To live is to feel, and to feel is to suffer."
Théophile Gautier
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"Life is neither a triumph nor a defeat, but a journey."
Théophile Gautier
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"To live fully is to embrace both joy and sorrow."
Théophile Gautier
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"The beauty of life lies in its unpredictability."
Théophile Gautier
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"Life itself is the proper binge."
George Sand
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"Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think."
Guy de Maupassant
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"Every person contains multitudes of contradictions."
Guy de Maupassant
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"Every person is both writer and character in their own story."
Gérard de Nerval
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"The beauty of life lies in its inevitable uncertainty."
Victor Leconte de Lisle
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"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived."
Victor Leconte de Lisle
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"Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this."
Alexandre Dumas, fils
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"Life's lessons are often disguised as life's disappointments."
Alexandre Dumas, fils
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"The human heart has its seasons, just as the earth does."
Stendhal
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"A man should not live like an animal in a house, but should live like a human being."
Stendhal
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"In the end, it is only the simplest things that matter."
Stendhal
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"The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist."
Stendhal
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"We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire."
George Sand
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"A woman's life is a poem of contradictions."
George Sand