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To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.

Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.

Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.