#live

To live is shared by all, but not to be worthy of living. ↗

— Aurelius Clemens Prudentius

#living #shared #worthy

Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#environment #how #illustrates #individual #kafka

One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#backwards #come #curious #forward #grandparents

I do live a weirdly divided life, because I'm not a Hollywood superstar, I don't live on Malibu Beach, I don't do massive 'OK!' spreads, I don't go to premieres and parties that much. ↗

— James Purefoy

#because #divided #go #hollywood #i

The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

#history #iliad #into #lives #people

I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me. ↗

— Zachary Quinto

#bad #character #good #i #just

We know how powerful our mother was when we were little, but is our wife that powerful to us now? Must we relive our great deed of escape from Mama with every other woman in our life? ↗

— Frank Pittman

#escape #every #great #how #know

Life must be lived as play. ↗

— Plato

#lived #must #play

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them. ↗

— Plato

#ill #live #may #men #nobody

I lived and languished. ↗

— Andrei Platonov

#lived