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No concibo mi vida más que como un encadenamiento de muertes sucesivas. Arrastro tras de mí los cadáveres de todas mis ilusiones, de todas mis vocaciones perdidas. ↗

— Julio Ramón Ribeyro

#muerte #peru #spanish #vida #life

Moja putanja spiralnog je oblika i život je postupno odmata. Sudjelujem, svakodnevno gubim ponešto slobode, umaram glasnice, ali uspjet ću već zbog toga što nisam motiviran koristoljubljem. ↗

— Jasna Horvat

#path #persistence #success #life

There are so many simple things getting unnoticed in me, it makes me feel I am a robot! ↗

— Vikram Roy

#modern-life #philosophy #philosophy-of-life #life

It's a special form of scholarly neurosis,´ said Camel. `He's no longer able to distinguish between life and literature.´ ↗

— David Lodge

#life

Our ability to look back on the past, our need or desire to make sense of it, is both a blessing and a curse; and our inability to see into the future with any degree of accuracy is, simultaneously, the thing that saves us and the thing that condemns us. ↗

— James Robertson

#history #insight #life #mankind #past

i have the brain the size of a planet and you want to talk to me about life ↗

— Douglas Adams

#life

There's nothing gay about living life straight ↗

— Paul B. Tripp

#gay-and-lesbian #memoir #military #reparative-therapy #life

The common man wants nothing of life but health, longevity, amusement, comfort -- "happiness." He who does not despise this should turn his eyes from world history, for it contains nothing of the sort. The best that history has created is great suffering. ↗

— Oswald Spengler

#history #struggle #suffering #life

Control yourself or be controlled. ↗

— Jennifer Eden Clark

#life #self-determination #society-s-increasing-stupidity #life

Pericles, he reflected, was a sad case. He'd been a postman all his life, a solid, reliable worker, until one Christmas when he had stolen all the gifts he was meant to deliver: wind-chimes, scented candles, Belgian chocolates, cowbells from the Bernese Oberland. Most of the haul had been lavished on his elderly mother; the rest he had stashed in his bedroom, which the old lady, being too frail to climb the stairs, no longer cleaned. ↗

— Alison Fell

#mother-son #postal #theft #life