Life Quotes

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

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"Life is what happens while you're making other plans."
Ivan Turgenev
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"We live not by hope, but by memory and habit."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"To live fully is to embrace all contradictions."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"Any idiot can face a crisis, it is the day to day living that wears you out."
Anton Chekhov
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"Life is what you make of it, always has been, always will be."
Anton Chekhov
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"The world treats us roughly and we learn to treat it less sentimentally as a consequence."
Anton Chekhov
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"When one is young, everything seems possible; when one is old, the whole truth is evident."
Anton Chekhov
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"A man who has never doubted has never truly lived."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"Boredom is the rust that accumulates on an idle soul."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"The greatest tragedy is a potential that was never fully realized."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"Life is the art of drawing without an eraser."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness."
Vladimir Nabokov
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"In the end, we are all defined by the choices we did not make."
Vladimir Nabokov
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"We die, we are born, we die again, and in between we create."
Vladimir Nabokov
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"Life is what we make of the time we have been given."
Vladimir Nabokov
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"Man is often a slave to his own passions and desires."
Nikolai Gogol
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"We are all actors on a stage not of our making."
Nikolai Gogol
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"We are the sum of our moments, not our intentions."
Nikolai Gogol
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"Without suffering, what is the pleasure of life"
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for"
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"If you want to understand, go to life, not to books"
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"Two plus two makes four is no longer life, gentlemen, but the beginning of death"
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"Every person has something to live for"
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately in love with suffering"
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"I love life dearly, even in its sorrows"
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"Life is a miracle, even in its sorrows"
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"The person who has lived the most is not the one who has lived the longest, but the one who has felt the most."
Maxim Gorky
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"To live fully is to embrace both joy and sorrow without resistance."
Maxim Gorky
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"A person's legacy is determined not by their words but by their deeds."
Maxim Gorky
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"One can live wonderfully without doing anything."
Ivan Turgenev