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  • In different hours, a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled up in each man's skin, - seven or eight ancestors at least, and they constitute the variety of notes for that new piece of music which his life is.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Life Quotes , Men Quotes
  • After all, I quite naturally want to live in order to fulfill my whole capacity for living, and not in order to fulfill my reasoning capacity alone, which is no more than some one-twentieth of my capacity for living. What does reason know? It knows only what it has managed to learn (and it may never learn anything else; that isn't very reassuring, but why not admit it?), while human nature acts as a complete entity, with all that is in it, consciously or unconsciously; and though it may be wrong, it's nevertheless alive.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Life Quotes , Order Quotes
  • We see daily that our lives are terrible and little, without continuity, buyable and salable at any moment, mere blips on a screen, that this is the way we live now. Memory marketed as nostalgia; terror reduced to mere suspense, to melodrama.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , Life Quotes , Memories Quotes
  • Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn't have the courage to say "yes" to life?
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Life Quotes , Happiness Quotes