#ife

If I didn't have children, I think my life would be a failure. ↗

— Yann Martel

#failure #i #i think #life #my life

In all big cities the style of life is the same. Same endless array of restaurants; same big museums with the usual suspects; same anonymity, which can be thrilling when you're young but which I found got tiresome. ↗

— Yann Martel

#array #big #big cities #cities #endless

'Life of Pi' was actually a very simple novel to write. ↗

— Yann Martel

#life #novel #simple #very #write

An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life. ↗

— Jose Marti

#death #glory #innate #insatiable #instinct

If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson of charity, especially those who did not bring flour. ↗

— Jose Marti

#bring #charity #denied #did #door

The vote is a trust more delicate than any other, for it involves not just the interests of the voter, but his life, honor and future as well. ↗

— Jose Marti

#delicate #future #his #honor #interests

To give one's life is a right only when one gives it unselfishly. ↗

— Jose Marti

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Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect. ↗

— Jose Marti

#bird #body #bones #done #essence

You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for! ↗

— Marcus Valerius Martial

#during #fool #give #give me #i

To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you do not like to do. You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind. ↗

— Agnes Martin

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