Life Quotes

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

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"What does it matter if one lives more or less time on earth?"
Raskolnikov
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"Life is the movement itself, not the goal nor the end."
Pierre Bezukhov
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"Real life is not like books."
Dolly Oblonskaya
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"Hunger is the best sauce in the world."
Sancho Panza
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"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"What is the use of a fine house if you haven't a decent place to sit in it?"
Sancho Panza
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"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next."
Abbé Faria
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"Live and learn."
Caderousse
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"Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans."
Levin
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"Life is a gift; treasure every moment."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"He who loves not wine women and song remains a fool his whole life long."
Sancho Panza
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"The more I see of the world, the more I am dissatisfied with it."
Charlotte Lucas
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"It seemed to him that his life had become divided into two parts"
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"She had built her life on shifting sand"
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"Life is a novel which should be interesting to the end; moreover, the end should be the best part of it"
Edmond Dantès
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"Let him who loves not wine, women and song remain a fool his whole life long."
Don Quixote
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"Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans."
Don Quixote
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"The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for."
Ivan Karamazov
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"I have a terrible hunger for life, and I go on living."
Dmitri Karamazov
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"I have learned that man is not born to happiness."
Edmond Dantès
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"All the variety, all the charm, and all the beauty of life is made up of light and shade."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next."
Abbé Faria
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"She was a woman of the world, yet she had never known the world."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"She was a woman trapped between the world of fantasy and cold reality."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"Her tragedy was in wanting too much from a world that offers so little."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"A man may live and act for fifty years without ever coming into contact with his real self."
Raskolnikov
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"The heart, like the fruit, must ripen before it can be enjoyed."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired."
Nick Carraway