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Bread, soup - these were my whole life. I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

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Il faut bien que je supporte deux ou trois chenilles si je veux connaître les papillons. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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Logic doesn't overcome pain. ↗

— Claudia Strauss

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Prophetic pragmatism attempts to keep alive the sense of alternative ways of life and of struggle based on the best of the past. In this sense, the praxis of prophetic pragmatism is tragic action with revolutionary intent, usually reformist consequences and always visionary outlook. ↗

— Cornel West

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If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. ↗

— Charlie Parker

#modeling #life

Books are for those without real lives, he thought. And they are no real replacement. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

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It’s not the people in your life that tell you what you want to hear, it's the people in your life that tell you the truth that count. ↗

— Derek Preston

#life #people #truth #life

A jewel's just a rock put under enormous heat and pressure. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

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Lights and darks. And suddenly i was here, where everything seems strange. And I don't know why. Like the Fox and the Crow, I don't know the whole story yet. But that's a good reason to go on, don't you think?" "Go where?" said the Scarecrow. "Go forward," said the girl. "See something. Learn something. Figure it out. We won't ever get the whole thing, I bet, but we'll get something. And then we'll have something to tell when we're old about what happened to us when we were young." "Now?" said the Scarecrow. "Can you tell it now?" "After," said the girl. "We have to have the BEFORE first, and that's life" "And what's life?" said the scarecrow. "Moving," said the girl. "Moving on. Shall we move on? Will you come with me? ↗

— Bruce Coville

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I have been made to learn that the doom and burthen of our life is bound for ever on man's shoulder, and when the attempt is made to cast it off, it but returns upon us with more unfamiliar and more awful pressure. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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