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Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino Author

The minute you start saying something, 'Ah, how beautiful! We must photograph it!' you are already close to view of the person who thinks that everything that is not photographed is lost, as if it had never existed, and that therefore, in order really to live, you must photograph as much as you can, and to photograph as much as you can you must either live in the most photographable way possible, or else consider photographable every moment of your life. The first course leads to stupidity; the second to madness.

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Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino Author

Your first book already defines you, while you are really far from being defined. And this definition is something you may then carry with you for the rest of your life, trying to confirm it or extend or correct or deny it; but you can never eliminate it.

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Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino Author

I speak and speak, Marco says, but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. The description of the world to which you lend a benevolent ear is one thing; the description that will go the rounds of the groups of stevedores and gondoliers on the street outside my house the day of my return is another; and yet another, that which I might dictate late in life, if I were taken prisoner by Genoese pirates and put in irons in the same cell with a writer of adventure stories. It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.

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Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino Author

You reach a moment in life when, among the people you have known, the dead outnumber the living. And the mind refuses to accept more faces, more expressions: on every new face you encounter, it prints the old forms, for each one it finds the most suitable mask.

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Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino Author

This is what I mean when I say I would like to swim against the stream of time: I would like to erase the consequences of certain events and restore an initial condition. But every moment of my life brings with it an accumulation of new facts, and each of these new facts bring with it consequences; so the more I seek to return to the zero moment from which I set out, the further I move away from it. . . .

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Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino Author

The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.

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Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino Author

A person's life consists of a collection of events, the last of which could also change the meaning of the whole, not because it counts more than the previous ones but because once they are included in a life, events are arranged in an order that is not chronological but, rather, corresponds to an inner architecture.

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Ivan Pavlov
Ivan Pavlov Author

It is not accidental that all phenomena of human life are dominated by the search for daily bread - the oldest link connecting all living things, man included, with the surrounding nature.

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Ivan Pavlov
Ivan Pavlov Author

Science demands from a man all his life. If you had two lives that would not be enough for you. Be passionate in your work and in your searching.

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Idris Elba
Idris Elba Author

I was always a real athletic kid. Then when I got older, I just figured it was part of life to keep training.

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Idris Elba
Idris Elba Author

My Father always told me that a fool at 40 is a fool for life.

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Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Author

O people who take pleasure in a life that will vanish, falling in love with a fading shadow is sheer stupidity

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Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Author

O you, who spends his lifetime disobeying his Lord, no one amongst your enemies is wicked to you more than you are to yourself

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Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Author

We should know that Allah has created us to live an eternal life with no death, a life of pride and ease with no humiliation, a life of security with no fear, a life of richness with no poverty, a life of joy with no pain, a life of perfection with no flaws. Allah is testing us in this world with a life that will end in death, a life of pride that is accompanied by humiliation and degradation, a life that is tainted by fear, where joy and ease are mixed with sorrow and pain.

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Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Author

There is no joy for someone who has no sorrow. There is no pleasure for the one who has no patience No bliss for someone with no misery and no rest for the one with no fatigue. When someone is a little tired, he has long rest. When he endures the difficulty of steadfastness for a time, that leads him to eternal life. All that the people of eternal bliss are in is steadfastness for a time.

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Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Author

Every drop of sweat and every breath we take in life, if not taken for the sake of Allah, will lead to regret and sorrow on the Day of Judgment

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Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Author

How strange! You lose a little from you and you cry. And your whole life is wasting and you're laughing

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Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Author

The keys to the life of the heart lie in reflecting upon the Quran, being humble before Allah in secret, and leaving sins.

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Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Author

Losing time is harder than death, as losing time keeps you away from Allah and the Hereafter, while death keeps you away from the worldly life and people.

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Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Author

This wordly life is like a shadow. If you try to catch it, you will never be able to do so. If you turn your back towards it, it has no choice but to follow you.

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Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Author

The ibtilaa' (testing) of the believer is like medicine for him. It cures him from illness. Had the illness remained it would destroy him or diminish his reward and level (in the hereafter). The tests and the trials extract these illnesses from him and prepare him for the perfect reward and the highest of degrees (in the life to come).

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Isadora Duncan
Isadora Duncan Author

I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre: the continual repetition of the same words and the same gestures, night after night, and the caprices, the way of looking at life, and the entire rigmarole disgusted me.

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Isadora Duncan
Isadora Duncan Author

All my life I have struggled to make one authentic gesture....

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Isadora Duncan
Isadora Duncan Author

When I was sixteen, I danced before an audience without music. At the end someone suddenly cried 'its Death and the Maiden'. But that was not my intention; I was only endeavoring to express my first knowledge of the underlying tragedy in all seemingly joyous manifestation. The dance according with my comprehension, should have been called 'Life and the Maiden'.

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Isadora Duncan
Isadora Duncan Author

The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul. The true dance is an expression of serenity; it is controlled by the profound rhythm of inner emotion. Emotion does not reach the moment of frenzy out of a spurt of action; it broods first, it sleeps like the life in the seed, and it unfolds with a gentle slowness. The Greeks understood the continuing beauty of a movement that mounted, that spread, that ended with a promise of rebirth.

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Isadora Duncan
Isadora Duncan Author

I was born by the sea, and I have noticed that all the great events of my life have taken place by the sea. My first idea of movement, of the dance, certainly came from the rhythm of the waves.

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Isadora Duncan
Isadora Duncan Author

People don't live nowadays: they get about ten percent out of life.

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Isadora Duncan
Isadora Duncan Author

It is only in romances that people undergo a sudden metamorphosis. In real life, even after the most terrible experiences, the main character remains exactly the same.

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Isadora Duncan
Isadora Duncan Author

I have only danced my life. As a child I danced the spontaneous joy of growing things. As an adolescent, I danced with joy turning to apprehension of the first realisation of tragic undercurrents; apprehension of the pitiless brutality and crushing progress of life.

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Isadora Duncan
Isadora Duncan Author

To dance is to live. What I want is a school of life.

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Isadora Duncan
Isadora Duncan Author

To express what is the most moral, healthful and beautiful in art this is the mission of the dancer, and to this I dedicate my life.

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Isadora Duncan
Isadora Duncan Author

Oh Woman, come before us, before our eyes longing for beauty, and tired of the ugliness of civilization, come in simple tunics, letting us see the line and harmony of the body beneath, and dance for us. Dance us the sweetness of life. Give us again the sweetness and the beauty of the true dance, give us again the joy of seeing the simple unconscious pure body of a woman. Like a great call it has come, and women must hear it and answer it.

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Ian Somerhalder
Ian Somerhalder Author

Acting is such a huge part of my life. It really allows me to have a creative outlet and to actually be able to have an outlet to discuss openly the things that truly I think are relevant in the world, that make a difference.

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Ian Somerhalder
Ian Somerhalder Author

You cant get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.

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Ian Somerhalder
Ian Somerhalder Author

The quality of life is so much higher anyplace you can ski in the morning and surf in the evening - there's something to be said for that.

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Ian Somerhalder
Ian Somerhalder Author

Looking around the world at these wildlife, it's abundantly clear that humans have benefited from nature in so many ways but have also brought many species to the brink of extinction...The American people that I interact with through my IS Foundation work do not want to allow this to happen; they do not want to let these species go without a fight; and they see the way in which nature provides for people around the world.

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Ian Somerhalder
Ian Somerhalder Author

It's really cool to see the transformation of reading something on a page and it coming to life.

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Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky Author

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

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Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky Author

I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God.

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Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky Author

There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.

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Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky Author

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

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Isabel Allende
Isabel Allende Author

...memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship between events; we cannot gauge the consequences of our acts, and we believe in the fiction of past, present, and future, but it may also be true that everything happens simultaneously.

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Isabel Allende
Isabel Allende Author

I don't want an uneventful and safe life, I prefer an adventurous one.

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Isabel Allende
Isabel Allende Author

As my Popo used to say, life is a tapestry we weave day by day with threads of different colors, some heavy and dark, others thin and bright, all the threads having their uses. The stupid things I did are already in the tapestry, indelible, but I’m not going to be weighed down by them till I die. What’s done is done; I have to look ahead.

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Isabel Allende
Isabel Allende Author

At the most difficult moments of my life, when it seemed that every door was closed to me, the taste of those apricots comes back to comfort me with the notion that abundance is always within reach, if only one knows how to find it.

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Isabel Allende
Isabel Allende Author

We all have an unsuspected reserve of strength inside that emerges when life puts us to the test.

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Isabel Allende
Isabel Allende Author

Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.

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Isabel Allende
Isabel Allende Author

I think that my life changed at 50. Many things happened. Menopause, the end of youth and my daughter died that year after being a whole year in a coma. So I think that I changed and I became an elder at 50.

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Isabel Allende
Isabel Allende Author

You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not.

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Isabel Allende
Isabel Allende Author

I don't want to be looking inside my ego, my stuff, my achievements, my me, me, me, me, I hate that stuff. I just want to be out there eh to the last day of my life ah interested in the world, in causes, in helping other people. Um that doesn't mean that I don't have a spiritual practice, that I don't look at my own soul, that I don't prepare myself for the that transition that death is but I cannot sit in meditation to contemplate my navel for the rest of my life. That would be boring for me.

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Irvin D. Yalom
Irvin D. Yalom Author

I feel strongly, because a man who will himself die one day in the not to distant future and, also, as a psychiatrist who spent decades dealing with death anxiety, that confronting death allows us, not to open some noisome, Pandora's box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.

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Irvin D. Yalom
Irvin D. Yalom Author

Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one's life!

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Irvin D. Yalom
Irvin D. Yalom Author

...the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety. The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.

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Irvin D. Yalom
Irvin D. Yalom Author

If we look at life in its small details, how ridiculous it all seems. It is like a drop of water seen through a microscope, a single drop teeming with protozoa. How we laugh as they bustle about so eagerly and struggle with one another. Whether here, or in the little span of human life, this terrible activity produces a comic effect

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Irvin D. Yalom
Irvin D. Yalom Author

As we reach the crest of life and look at the path before us, we apprehend that the path no longer ascends but slopes downward toward decline and diminishment. From that point on, concerns about death are never far from mind.

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Irvin D. Yalom
Irvin D. Yalom Author

In a study we did of bereavement, we found that rather impressive numbers of widows and widowers had not simply gone back to their pre-loss functioning, but grown. This was due to a kind of increased existential awareness that resulted from this confrontation with the death of another. And I think it brought them in touch with their own death, so they began to experience a kind of preciousness to life that comes with an experience of its transiency.

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Irvin D. Yalom
Irvin D. Yalom Author

The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.

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Irvin D. Yalom
Irvin D. Yalom Author

Heidegger makes the distinction between being absorbed in the way things are in the world and being aware that things are in the world. And if you do the latter, you're not so worried about the everyday trivialities of life, for example, petty concerns about secrecy or privacy.

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Irvin D. Yalom
Irvin D. Yalom Author

Live your life to the fullest; and then, and only then, die. Don't leave any unlived life behind.

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Irvin D. Yalom
Irvin D. Yalom Author

Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it's like to be on the other side of the couch and see what they find helpful or not helpful. And if possible, get into therapy at different stages of their life with different kinds of therapists just to sample a bit.

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Irvin D. Yalom
Irvin D. Yalom Author

Death cures psychoneurosis. In a sense all these neurotic concerns--fear of rejection, interpersonal concerns--seem to melt away, and people get another perspective on their lives. The important things are really important, and the trivia of life is trivialized.

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Irvin D. Yalom
Irvin D. Yalom Author

To the extent that one is responsible for one's life, one is alone.

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Irvin D. Yalom
Irvin D. Yalom Author

Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.

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Irvin D. Yalom
Irvin D. Yalom Author

It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one's germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness!

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Irvin D. Yalom
Irvin D. Yalom Author

A sense of life meaning ensues but cannot be deliberately pursued: life meaning is always a derivative phenomenon that materializes when we have transcended ourselves, when we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves

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Irvin D. Yalom
Irvin D. Yalom Author

Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life. This is what makes us human. But it comes with a costly price: the wound of mortality. Our existence is forever shadowed by the knowledge that we will grow, blossom, and, inevitably, diminish and die.

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Irvin D. Yalom
Irvin D. Yalom Author

Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find despair.

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Irvin D. Yalom
Irvin D. Yalom Author

A curious thought experiment. . . Nietzsche's message to us was to live life in such a way that we would be willing to repeat the same life eternally

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Irvin D. Yalom
Irvin D. Yalom Author

To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.

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Irvin D. Yalom
Irvin D. Yalom Author

One thing I feel clear about is that it's important not to let your life live you. Otherwise, you end up at forty feeling you haven't really lived. What have I learned? Perhaps to live now, so that at fifty I won't look back upon my forties with regret.

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Ian Mckellen
Ian Mckellen Author

There are not many things in my life I can be absolutely proud of or certain I got right, but one of them is that I've got better as an actor. I've learnt how to do it. And I still have enough energy to do it.

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Ian Mckellen
Ian Mckellen Author

I've had enough of being a gay icon! I've had enough of all this hard work, because, since I came out, I keep getting all these parts, and my career's taken off. I want a quiet life. I'm going back into the closet. But I can't get back into the closet, because it's absolutely jam-packed full of other actors.

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Ian Mckellen
Ian Mckellen Author

Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I'm waiting to fall in love'. For me, as a child, it was Christmas. At least that eventually came.

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