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Everything has been figured out, except how to live
You don't even live once
It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably
To live is to feel oneself lost
Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do
Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That's why we want to be considerate of every man - who knows what's in him, why he was born and what he can do?
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens
To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy
So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be
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