Quotes About Struggle
Lord, why did you leave me in these woods?
~ Aleksandar Hemon
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It never ends, Pinya says. Every time, you think maybe this here is a different world, but it's all the same: they live, we die. So here it is again.
~ Aleksandar Hemon
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I wanted us to share the sense that the number of wrong moves far exceeds the number of good moves, to share the frightening instability of the correct decision, to bond in being confounded.
~ Aleksandar Hemon
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What is life? This is no life. Who wants this life? The dead leave it to us to struggle in this world. They go elsewhere, wherever it is, and wait for God to sort it all out. But we have to stay here, no matter how hard it is. Nobody can be alone. Life is the life of others. My life, your life, that is nothing.
~ Aleksandar Hemon
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Citeam toat? noaptea, toat? ziua, în loc s?-mi fac temele; la È™coal? citeam pe sub banc?[...]. M? simÈ›eam confortabil È™i sigur doar in spaÈ›iul imaginar al literarurii: f?r? un tat? absent, f?r? o mama deprimat?, f?r? b?t?uÈ™ii care m? puneau s? ling paginile c?rÈ›ii pân? când limba mi se înnegrea de la cerneal?.
~ Aleksandar Hemon
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What is it with boys? How do they slide into fucked-upness so quickly, with such natural ease?
~ Aleksandar Hemon
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There are people who just live and there are people who just survive," Bega had said. "Americans live, we survive.
~ Aleksandar Hemon
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I've lived to bury my desires and see my dreams corrode with rust now all that's left are fruitless fires that burn my empty heart to dust. Struck by the clouds of cruel fate My crown of Summer bloom is sere Alone and sad, I watch and wait And wonder if the end is near. As conquered by the last cold air When Winter whistles in the wind Alone upon a branch that's bare A trembling leaf is left behind.
~ Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin
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The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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There is no struggle here: life is a circuitous route to death, and conservative instincts are the pavement of this route, they are one with it, indistinguishable from it. They don't "want" anything, they don't "struggle" with death, they simply do their job of making this particular circuitous path to the inanimate operative. Strictly speaking, they work at maintaining this path, and not simply at "maintaining life.
~ Alenka Zupan?i?
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Il soggiorno veronese è davvero il primo momento in cui Dante dovette rendersi conto di ...come sa di sale lo pane altrui, e come è duro calle lo scendere e 'l salir per l'altrui scale.
~ Alessandro Barbero
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Tenía esa belleza de la que sólo los vencidos son capaces.
~ Alessandro Baricco
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Povero Renzo! – rispose il frate, - se il potente che vuol commettere l'ingiustizia fosse sempre obbligato a dir le sue ragioni, le cose non aderebbero come vanno.
~ Alessandro Manzoni
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Through it all, they kept pecking at one another, as is too often the case with fellows in misfortune.
~ Alessandro Manzoni
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sempre Dio: coloro che non possono difendersi da sè, che non hanno la forza, sempre han questo Dio da mettere in campo, che se gli avessero parlato. Cosa pretendete con codesta vostra parola. Di farmi...?
~ Alessandro Manzoni
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Le veniva comandata di cambiare in un nuovo rimorso un mezzo di espiazione. La sventurata tentò tutte le strade per esimirsi dall'orribile commando; tutte, fuorché la sola ch'era sicura, e che le stava pur sempre aperta davanti. Il delitto è un padrone rigido e inflessibile, contro cui non divien forte se non chi se ne ribella interamente. A questo Gertrude non voleva risolversi; e ubbidì.
~ Alessandro Manzoni
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E quel che è peggio, è che le gride ci sono, stampate, per gastigarli: e non già gride senza costrutto; fatte benissimo [...]. E dice: sia chi si sia, vili e plebi.
~ Alessandro Manzoni
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È un saggio che Dio vi dà per cattivarvi al suo servizio, per animarvi ad entrar risolutamente nella nuova vita in cui avrete tanto da disfare, tanto da riparare, tanto da piangere!
~ Alessandro Manzoni
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Coloro i quali avevano impugnato così risolutamente, e così a lungo, che ci fosse vicino a loro, tra loro, un germe di male, che poteva, per mezzi naturali, propagarsi e fare una strage; non potendo ormai negare il propagamento di esso, e non volendo attribuirlo a que' mezzi (che sarebbe stato confessare a un tempo un grand'inganno e una gran colpa), erano tanto più disposti a trovarci qualche altra causa, a menar buona qualunque ne venisse messa in campo.
~ Alessandro Manzoni
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The arousing from sleep, after a recent misfortune, is a bitter moment; the mind at first habitually recurs to its previous tranquility, but is soon depressed by the thought of the contrast that awaits it.
~ Alessandro Manzoni 1785-1873
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There are four things that make a man fight as you just did," the duke explained to Rumbold. "Love, despair, anger, or insanity." Erik counted them off on his fingers. "Everything to lose, nothing to lose, someone's taken it, or you've lost it.
~ Alethea Kontis
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