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Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
― François Rabelais
Life
Time
Waiting
I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
― François Rabelais
Life
Success
Done
Would
Love loves to love love.
― James Joyce
Love
Life
Funny Love
Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.
― James Joyce
Life
Meeting
Ourselves
What most people call loving consists of picking out a woman and marrying her. They pick her out, I swear, I’ve seen them. As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves you staked out in the middle of the courtyard. They probably say that they pick her out because-they-love-her, I think it’s just the siteoppo. Beatrice wasn’t picked out, Juliet wasn’t picked out. You don’t pick out the rain that soaks you to a skin when you come out of a concert.
― Julio Cortázar
Life
Rain
Thinking
She would smile and show no surprise, convinced as she was, the same as I, that casual meetings are apt to be just the opposite, and that people who make dates are the same kind who need lines on their writing paper, or who always squeeze up from the bottom on a tube of toothpaste.
― Julio Cortázar
Life
Writing
Opposites
The life of man is long, perhaps longer than necessary Or perhaps it is shorter than necessary?
― Nâzım Hikmet
Life
Men
Long
All my life, I’d shied away from human company, never sharing my thoughts with a soul. How pointless this seemed now, and how absurd!
― Sabahattin Ali
Life
Company
Human
I’d thought that it was life itself that had ground me down – that my sadness stemmed from spiritual malaise. After spending two hours with a book, and finding it more pleasurable than two years of real life, I’d remember again that life had no meaning, and sink back into despair.
― Sabahattin Ali
Life
Pleasurable
Remember
I was astounded at the passion and fire of the melody itself. I could not describe it then, nor can I now. Was it just his voice or something more tangible emerging from his very soul that could arouse such emotion in another person, and bring one's innermost thoughts to life?
― Chinghiz Aitmatov
Astounded
Life
Innermost
Itself
I was astounded at the passion and fire of the melody itself. I could not describe it then, nor can I now. Was it just his voice or something more tangible emerging from his very soul that could arouse such emotion in another person, and bring one’s innermost thoughts to life?
― Chinghiz Aitmatov
Life
Astounded
Thoughts
Innermost
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
― Jean-Paul Sartre
Life
Freedom
Responsibility
Everything
Life is a sum of all your choices". So, what are you doing today?
― Albert Camus
Decisions You Make
Choices Made
Today
Life
Sum
Life is meaningless, but worth living, provided you recognize it's meaningless.
― Albert Camus
Meaningless
Worth Living
Life Is
Life
Recognize
There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.
― Albert Camus
Life
Dying
Causes
Worth
Killing
In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
― Albert Camus
Inspirational
Life
Motivational
Winter
Invincible
Summer
Depths
Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.
― Guy de Maupassant
Life
White
Soul
A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
― John Keats
Life
Beauty
Beautiful
Stop and consider! life is but a day
― John Keats
Life Is
Consider
Life
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
― John Keats
Life
Depression
Wisdom
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