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“Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult—at least I found it so—than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind.” Charles Darwin, On The Origin of Species
“Life is a moment-to-moment struggle against hunger or cold or sleeplessness, against a sour stomach or an aching tooth.” George Orwell, 1984
“Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.” John Milton, Paradise Lost
“The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart.” Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
“I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“There is scarcely any passion without struggle.” Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
“Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history, such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.” Mao Zedong, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung
“I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs and defeats, through long years to come, I see the evil of this time and of the previous time of which this is the...” Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
“In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.” Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.” John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley
“Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable.” Blaise Pascal, Pensées
“May our struggles and our concern for this planet never take away the joy of our hope.” Pope Francis, Laudato si'
“When bad men combine, the good must associate” Edmund Burke, Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents
“During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people.” Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom
“Death was not the opposite of life. It was already here, within my being, it had always been here, and no struggle would permit me to forget that.” Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“all this is just a power struggle for the spotlight. Just each of us being me, me, me first. The murderer, the victim, the witness, each of us thinks our role is the lead. Probably that goes for anybody in the world.” Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
“Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else.” Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
“Inside every sane person there's a madman struggling to get out . . . No one goes mad quicker than a totally sane person.” Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic
“And yet their wills did not yield, and they struggled on.” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
“The story is not in the words; it's in the struggle.” Paul Auster, The New York Trilogy
“We both have war inside of us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.” Veronica Roth, Insurgent

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