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“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” Oscar Wilde, “The Soul of Man under Socialism” - 1891

“No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be it ever so beautiful. There is no place like home.” L. Frank Baum, “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” - 1900

“Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.” Andy Warhol, “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol” - 1975

“Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.” Jean-Paul Sartre, “Nausea” - 1938

“The trouble with the theory is that government is not a machine, but a living thing.” Woodrow Wilson, “The New Freedom” - 1913

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies . . . The man who never reads lives only one.” George R. R. Martin, “A Dance with Dragons” - 2011

“I don't live in either my past or my future. I'm interested only in the present.” Paulo Coelho, “The Alchemist” - 1988

“Stuff your eyes with wonder . . . live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.” Ray Bradbury, “Fahrenheit 451” - 1953

“It is nothing to die; it is dreadful not to live.” Victor Hugo, “Les Misérables” - 1862

“A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.” Milan Kundera, “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” - 1984

“You’re alive, Bod. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything.” Neil Gaiman, “The Graveyard Book” - 2008

“what is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying” Albert Camus, “The Myth of Sisyphus” - 1942

“you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of wonderful new lies, or people just aren't going to want to go on living.” Kurt Vonnegut, “Slaughterhouse-Five” - 1969

“Each person who ever was or is or will be has a song. It isn’t a song that anybody else wrote. It has its own melody, it has its own words. Very few people get to sing their own song. Most of us fear that we cannot do it justice with our...” Neil Gaiman, “Anansi Boys” - 2005

“To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it.” Bertrand Russell, “A History of Western Philosophy” - 1945

“Live all you can; it's a mistake not to.” Henry James, “The Ambassadors” - 1903

“The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch.” Chuck Palahniuk, “Lullaby” - 2002

“it was easy enough to despise the world, but decidedly difficult to find any other habitable region.” Edith Wharton, “House of Mirth” - 1905

“Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime.” Samuel Butler, “The Way of All Flesh” - 1903

“Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby!” George Bernard Shaw, “Pygmalion” - 1913

“if one has money without brains, he cannot use it to advantage; but if one has brains without money, they will enable him to live comfortably to the end of his days.” L. Frank Baum, “The Marvelous Land of Oz” - 1904

“I had chosen the dead rather than the living, the thing thought rather than the thing thinking!” George MacDonald, “Lilith” - 1895

“All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered.” Kenneth Grahame, “The Wind in the Willows” - 1908

“Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there—I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life.” Andy Warhol, “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol” - 1975

“Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.” Emily Brontë, “Wuthering Heights” - 1847

“I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.” Bob Dylan, “Chronicles, Volume One” - 2004

“The most notable distinction between living and inanimate things is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.” John Dewey, “Democracy and Education” - 1916

“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people’s lives alone, not interfering with them.” Oscar Wilde, “The Soul of Man under Socialism” - 1891

“One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything except a good reputation.” Oscar Wilde, “A Woman of No Importance” - 1893

“The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of our lives. I wondered if that was sort of the point of architecture.” John Green, “The Fault in Our Stars” - 2012

“As long as we don’t die, this is gonna be one hell of a story.” John Green, “Paper Towns” - 2008

“Haven’t you learned anything, not even with the approach of death? Stop thinking all the time that you’re in the way, that you’re bothering the person next to you. If people don’t like it, they can complain. And if they don’t have the...” Paulo Coelho, “Veronika Decides to Die” - 1998

“While I hope that the chemical gets rid of my chronic depression, I want to continue being crazy, living my life the way I dream it, and not the way other people want it to be.” Paulo Coelho, “Veronika Decides to Die” - 1998

“'Does it hurt very much to die? ' Well, sweetheart, I tell her, yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.” Chuck Palahniuk, “Survivor” - 1999

“I'm not a starfish or a pepper tree. I'm a living, breathing human being. Of course I've been in love.” Haruki Murakami, “Kafka on the Shore” - 2002

“You’re mine . . . Mine, as I’m yours. And if we die, we die. All men must die, Jon Snow. But first we’ll live.” George R. R. Martin, “A Storm of Swords” - 2000

“I'm wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there: not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart: but really with it, and in it.” Emily Brontë, “Wuthering Heights” - 1847

“we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive.” George Eliot, “The Mill on the Floss” - 1860

“Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget that until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,—'Wait and hope.'” Alexandre Dumas, “The Count of Monte Cristo” - 1845

“As if by running we won't have to get on with our lives.” Chuck Palahniuk, “Invisible Monsters” - 1999

“How can we live without our lives? How will we know it’s us without our past?” John Steinbeck, “The Grapes of Wrath” - 1939

“I'm alive. . . . Thinking about it, noticing it, is new. You do things and don't watch. Then all of a sudden you look and see what you're doing and it's the first time, really.” Ray Bradbury, “Dandelion Wine” - 1957

“This hobble of being alive is rather serious, don't you think so?” Thomas Hardy, “Tess of the d'Urbervilles” - 1891

“I'd want it real. I'd take no pride in any hopeless longing. I wouldn't hold a stillborn aspiration. I'd want to have it, to make it, to live it.” Ayn Rand, “Atlas Shrugged” - 1957

“I want to feel all there is to feel, he thought. Let me feel tired, now, let me feel tired. I mustn't forget, I'm alive, I know I'm alive, I mustn't forget it tonight or tomorrow or the day after that.” Ray Bradbury, “Dandelion Wine” - 1957

“the question is not how to get cured, but how to live.” Joseph Conrad, “Lord Jim” - 1900

“She was very near hating him now; yet the sound of his voice, the way the light fell on his thin dark hair, the way he sat and moved and wore his clothes—she was conscious that even these trivial things were inwoven with her deepest life.” Edith Wharton, “House of Mirth” - 1905

“she felt pain, a violent pain, but it made her alive, because it was worth feeling.” Ayn Rand, “Atlas Shrugged” - 1957

“There’s something to be said for hunger: at least it lets you know you’re still alive.” Margaret Atwood, “Oryx and Crake” - 2003

“We could live offa the fatta the lan’.” John Steinbeck, “Of Mice and Men” - 1937

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