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Life

Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth