Posted by: Andrea Manfrč
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix.
It takes long time to become young.
We all have a world of things within us: everyone their own! And how can we understand each other, sir, if in the words I say I put the meaning and the value of the things within me; whilst he who listens, inevitably, understands them with the meaning and the value that they have for each other, of the world like he has it within him? We think we understand each other, we never understand each other!
The whole is in the small things: the child is small but contains the man, the mind is restricted and it creates thought, the eye is but a dot but it embraces spaces.
You'll always have to face critisism!
They'll talk badly about you!
It'll be hard for you to meet someone
to whom you'll do fine as you are!
So live, do what your heart tells you to!
Compare life to a theatre play
without an initial rehearsal!
Dance, sing, laugh, living intensely
every day, every moment of your life,
before the show's over without any clapping!
What's your name,' Coraline asked the cat. 'Look, I'm Coraline. Okay?'
'Cats don't have names,' it said.
'No?' said Coraline.
'No,' said the cat. 'Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.
You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.
They think I'm mad because I'm not willing to sell my days for gold... and I think them crazy because they think my days may have a price.
The artifice of the happy endings in stories always annoyed my Nini; she is convinced that in life there are no endings, but boundaries, wandering here and there, tripping over, getting lost.