“I have this heavy addiction to life and I’m told that the withdrawal symptoms are shocking.” — Kyril Bonfiglioli, After You with the Pistol
Tag: living
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“To live a life half dead, a living death.” — John Milton, Samson Agonistes
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“The essential quality of life is living; the essential quality of living is change; change is evolution: and we are part of it.” — John Wyndham, The Chrysalids
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“At its best, schooling can be about how to make a life, which is quite different from how to make a living.” — Neil Postman, The End of Education
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“It is said that his time was easier than ours, but I doubt it — no time can be easy if one is living through it.” — James Baldwin, Why I Stopped Hating Shakespeare
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“What would our lives be without our distractions?” — Joy Williams, Making Friends, The Paris Review, Winter 1981
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“You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book (Lady Chatterley, for instance), or you take a trip, or you talk with Richard, and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating.” — Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin (Vol 1, 1931–1934)
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“Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.” — Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin
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“We need randomness, mess, adventures, uncertainty, self-discovery, near-traumatic episodes, all these things that makes life worth living.” — Nassim Taleb, Antifragile
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“People can hold liberal and conservative dogma points at the same time. They’re not living their lives via platforms. They’re living their lives.” — Jon Stewart, Hartford Advocate Interview