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And the awful thing was that Grenouille, although he knew that this odour was his odour, could not smell it. Virtually drowning in himself, he could not for the life of him smell himself! ↗

— Patrick Süskind

#odour #perfume #smell #life

Every man must have a philosophy of life, for everyone must have a standard by which to measure his conduct. And philosophy is nothing but a standard by which to measure. ↗

— B.R. Ambedkar

#philosophy-of-life #life

I shall go on in the same way, losing my temper...there will be still the same wall between the holy of holies of my soul and other people...but my life now, my whole life apart from anything that can happen to me, every minute of it is no more meaningless, as it was before, but it has the positive meaning of goodness, which I have the power to put into it. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#inspirational

Ilmu terbaik adalah yang diamalkan. Waktu terbaik, yang dioptimalkan. Cinta terbaik, yang dihalalkan. Harta terbaik, yang disedekahkan. Manusia terbaik, yang bermanfaat bagi manusia lain. ↗

— Ahmad Rifa'i Rif'an

#life #love #religious #life

Some things are more than we can understand. ↗

— Christie Watson

#understanding #life

As in all sweetest music, a tinge of sadness was in every note. Nor do we know how much of the pleasures even of life we owe to the intermingled sorrows. Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths, although deepest truth must be deepest joy. ↗

— George MacDonald

#music #sorrow #truth #life

لا خطأ في السقوط والإنهيار فالحياة لم تخْلَق خالية من الحفر، لكن الخطأ هو المكوث في هذه الحفر وكأن الحياة خُلِقَت كحفرة ↗

— ريما هاشم نواوي

#life

There might be a million wrong people in your life, but when the right one comes everything looks dark. ↗

— M.F. Moonzajer

#right-person #wrong #life

Being crazy of someone might seem cheap, but what if your life is priceless without that person. ↗

— M.F. Moonzajer

#crazy #priceless #life

Ivanov: And this whole romance of ours is commonplace and trite: he lost heart, and he lost his way. She came along, strong and brave in spirit, and gave him an helping hand. That's all very well and plausible in novels, but in life... Sasha: In life it's the same. Ivanov: I see you have a fine understanding of life! ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#novels #romance #life