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The great characters of fiction live as truly as the memories of dead men. For the life after death it is not necessary that a man or woman should have lived.

Samuel Butler

To live is like to love all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

Samuel Butler

To try to live in posterity is to be like an actor who leaps over the footlights and talks to the orchestra.

Samuel Butler

The work we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Thomas Carlyle

No man can bear to live with a woman who speaks nothing but the truth to him.

Orson Scott Card

If a father commands a son to commit a crime so terrible that the son can't do it and live with himself, then is it betrayal for the son to disobey his father?

Orson Scott Card

It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.

Willa Sibert Cather

I wonder will death be much lonelier than life. Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You can live close against other people yet your lives never touch. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even coming and going.

Emily Carr

Everyone has unique gifts and talents. What you love is what you're gifted at. To be completely happy, to live a completely fulfilled life, you have to do what you love.

Barbara Sher

The most serious and universal problem is the growing chasm between the richest and poorest people on earth. Citizens of the ten wealthiest countries are now seventy-five times richer than those who live in the ten poorest ones, and the separation is increasing every year, not only between nations but also within them.

James Earl Carter, Jr.

Knowing whether or not one can live without appeal is all that interests me.

Albert Camus

When we choose to be parents, we accept another human being as part of ourselves, and a large part of our emotional selves will stay with that person as long as we live. From that time on, there will be another person on this earth whose orbit around us will affect us as surely as the moon affects the tides, and affect us in some ways more deeply than anyone else can. Our children are extensions of ourselves.

Fred Rogers

It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.

Albert Camus

I have certain rules I live by. My first rule: I don't believe anything the government tells me.

George Denis Patrick Carlin

I think it's important to live life with a knowledge of its mystery, and of your own mystery.

Joseph Campbell