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«It is not difficult to write in Spanish; the Spanish language is a gift from the gods which we Spaniards take for granted. I take comfort therefore in the belief that you wished to pay tribute to a glorious language and not to the humble writer who uses it for everything it can express: the joy and the wisdom of Mankind, since literature is an art form of all and for all, although written without deference, heeding only the voiceless, anonymous murmur of a given place and time.»
«Live as you would have wished to live when you are dying»
Author: Christian Furchtegott Gellert
| About:
Death and dying,
Living
| Keywords:
As You, dying, wished
«I think the Swedish Academy wished to manifest its solidarity with the living spirit of Greece today.»
Author: Giorgos Seferis
| Keywords:
academies, academy, Academy A, Greece, manifest, solidarity, Swedish, The academy, wished
«I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I've always thought any sane woman would be a lover of women because loving men is such a mess. I have always wished I'd fall in love with a woman. Damn.»
«I always wished I had died, and I still wish that, because I could have gotten the whole thing over with.»
«I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me.»
Author: Henri Matisse
(Artist, Painter)
| About:
Effort,
Joy,
Trying,
Work
| Keywords:
joyousness, labors, lets, springtime, suspect, wished
«I was somebody who never loved my hair. I had curly hair and wished it was straight.»
«No wise man ever wished to be younger.»
«James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.»
Author: Tom Stoppard
(Playwright)
| Keywords:
essentially, James, James Joyce, Joyce, recognized, universally, wished
«I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I have not lived.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Death and dying,
Life
| Keywords:
came, deliberately, discover, essential, facts, facts of life, front, fronted, fronts, have-not, Into the Woods, lived, out front, Teach, The Facts of Life, went, wished, woods
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