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“Let go, live your life, the grave has no sunny corners”

Book:Scar Tissue: Poems

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Scar Tissue: Poems

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Charles Wright

Charles Wright is an American poet born on August 25, 1935. He is known for his profound depictions of natural landscapes and unique insights into the culture of the American South. more

“I have often wondered before, and now particularly I wonder: What, after all, is the highest price one should pay for life? How much should one pay, how much is too much? As they teach in schools nowadays: "The dearest thing a man has is life, he lives but once." That means cling to life at any cost. The camps helped many of us to reach the conclusion that betrayal, the ruin of good and helpless people, is too high a price. Life isn't worth it. But as for the fawning, the flattery, the lies, people in the camp differed. Some said these were an acceptable price, and perhaps they were right. But what about this price - to save one's life at the cost of surrendering everything that gives it color, flavor, and sparkle? To get a life of digestion, breathing, muscular and mental activity, and nothing more? To become a walking husk of a man - isn't that an exuberant price? It would be a mockery. Should I pay it? (chapter 22)”

Living

Book:Cancer Ward

Source: Cancer Ward

“But this is how you walk to the end of the world. This is how you live forever. Here is one day, and here is the next, and the next, and you take what you can, savor every stolen second, cling to every moment, until it’s gone.”

Living

Author:V.E. Schwab

“In those moments that burst alive the present lasts for ever, and I know there are many more presents to live. I understand. I understand you can be free. I understand that the way you stop time is by stopping being ruled by it.”

Time Freedom Living

Book:How to Stop Time

Source: How to Stop Time

“Life should be lived with confidence, assurance, and security.”

Life Security Confidence Living Assurance Asa Don Brown Waiting To Live

Book:Waiting to Live

Source: Waiting to Live

“But he had to think like a character in a Chekhov play, forever taunted by desires but trapped in a life much too small to accommodate the entirety of a human being. That was why Chekhov was eternally beloved.”

Life Humans Living Authors Chekhov Plays Anton Chekhov

Book:Our Country Friends

Source: Our Country Friends

“A seed is a place where things begin their lives. It is not a place where they live their lives, for attempting to do so will end their lives.”

Life Growth Existence Birth Living Seeds Endings Beginnings Maturation

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Life is an experience to be lived.”

Life Living Experience

Author:Lailah Gifty Akita

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