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When we are born, when we enter this world, it is as if we signed a pact for the rest of our life, but a day may come when we will ask ourselves Who signed this on my behalf? ↗

— José Saramago

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When people say they hate life, to what are they comparing it to? The alternative isn't any more appealing. ↗

— Carroll Bryant

#philosophy-of-life #philosphy #philsophical-thought #life

When life gets you down, improvise as if crawling was part of the choreography. ↗

— Iveta Cherneva

#crawling #dance #down #improvise #life

There are three intolerable things in life - cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women... ↗

— Orson Welles

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The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain will erode the deeds of his life. But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge that he will effect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#fate #fear #ignorance #life #order

Jules, I’ll tell you now what I would have told you at dinner if you’d been speakin’ to me. This,” he said, one hand dropping to my bottom and pulling my hips into his, one going up my back to press my torso to his chest, “is the sweetest thing I’ve had in my life and I haven’t even f**ked you yet. I never expected to get a chance at anything so sweet and now that I got it, I’m not gonna let it go. ↗

— Kristen Ashley

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Each day is a miracle that intoxicates me. I want more. I greet every morning like a new pleasure. And yet I am keenly aware of all life's artifices. Getting dressed, wearing make-up, laughing, having fun-isn't all that just playing a role? Am I not more profound, carrying the burden of those twenty years when I 'wasn't alive', than all those who rushed around in vain during that time? ↗

— Malika Oufkir

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We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it. ↗

— George Eliot

#life #world #life

Of little worth as life is when we misuse it, it is worth that effort. It would cost nothing to lay down if it were not. ↗

— Charles Dickens

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We think we can make honey without sharing in the fate of bees, but we are in truth nothing but poor bees, destined to accomplish our task and then die. ↗

— Muriel Barbery

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