#worth living

Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

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Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning; and life at that price is not worth living. ↗

— Gilbert Parker

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The ancient Greeks were the first ones to say an unexamined life is not worth living. They don't tell you of course what we found out, an examined life not that fascinating either. ↗

— Colin Quinn

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What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death. ↗

— Zane Grey

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To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it? ↗

— Edith Wharton

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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. ↗

— William James

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So long as we do not blow our brains out, we have decided life is worth living. ↗

— Paracelsus

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Carefully execute every instruction given to you by the director, producer, and studio. But that would be a life not worth living. ↗

— Carter Burwell

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If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace. ↗

— Hamilton Fish

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A life lived unexplored is a life not worth living. ↗

— Kirk Hammett

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