Life
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Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?
The Sun Also Rises
Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
That we cannot rise equal to situations when we are in them � that is the tragedy of life.
A Literate Passion: Letters of Ana�s Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953
But it's just because the chances are all against you, just because there is so little hope, that life is sweet over here.
Tropic of Cancer
The most wonderful opportunity which life offers is to be human.
In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.
I found that what I had desired all my life was not to live - if what others are doing is called living - but to express myself.
Tropic of Capricorn
Surely every one realizes, at some point along the way, that he is capable of living a far better life than the one he has chosen.
Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch
True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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