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Naked girls with the heads of Marx and Malraux prone and helpless in the glare of the headlights, tried to give them a little joie de vivre but maybe it didn’t take, their constant bickering and smallness, it’s like a stroke of lightning, the world reminds you of its power, tracheotomies right and left, I am spinning, my pretty child, don’t scratch, pick up your feet, the long nights, spent most of my time listening, this is a test of the system, this is only a test.
Donald Barthelme
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Apre'  s le rare bonheur de trouver une compagne qui nous soit bien assortie, l'e  tat le moins malheureux de la vie est sans doute de vivre seul. After the rare happiness of finding a companion with whom we are well matched, the least unpleasant state of life is without doubt to live alone.

Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

— 1788  Paul et Virginie.

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Qui vit sans tabac n'est pas digne de vivre. Anyone who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.

Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière

— 1665  Dom Juan, act1, sc.1.

Tags: vit, digne, who, lives, without, tobacco, worthy, living

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Il faut manger pour vivre, et non pas vivre pour manger. One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière

— 1668  L'Avare, act 3, sc.1.

Tags: manger, pour, One, eat, live

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Il vaut mieux re"  ver sa vie que la vivre, encore que la vivre ce soit encore la re"  ver. It's better to dream your life than to live it, and even though you live it, you will still dream it.

Marcel Proust

— 1896  Les Plaisirs et les jours.

Tags: vaut, mieux, ver, que, encore, soit, better, dream, life

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As an embittered cynic, I should be programmed to vomit all over the screen at the mere sight of this, but instead, I find it strangely moving. You see, as I stare into their happy smiling faces filled with naive joie de vivre, I know they're just blissfully unaware of the crushing despair that awaits them as they venture into adulthood. The myriad disappointments, the yawning chasms of pain, the slow gnawing descent into physical decay, the sheer unrelenting horror of it all.

charlie brooker

— Screenwipe S3E4
— Discussing the High School Musical series

Tags: embittered, cynic, programmed, vomit, over, screen, sight, find, strangely

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Lever à six, coucher à dix,Dîner à dix, souper à six,Font vivre l'homme dix fois dix.

victor hugo

— To rise at six, to sleep at ten,To sup at ten, to dine at six,Make a man live for ten times ten.Inscription in Hugo's dining room, quoted in Gustave Larroumet, La maison de Victor Hugo: Impressions de Guernesey (1895), Chapter III

Tags: Lever, six, coucher, dix, l'homme, fois

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En ceste foy je vueil vivre et mourir.

françois villon

— In this faith I wish to live and die.
— Line 882; "Ballade pour Prier Nostre Dame (Ballade as a Prayer to Our Lady)".

Tags: ceste, foy, vueil, mourir

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Mais, quoy que soit du laboureux mestier,Il n'est tresor que de vivre a son aise.

françois villon

— But whatever may be said about the Life of Work,There is no treasure quite like living at one's ease.
— Line 1501; "Ballade: Les Contrediz de Franc Gontier (Ballade: Franc Gontier Refuted)".

Tags: Mais, que, soit, tresor, son, aise

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Des moments libres. Toute vie bien réglée a les siens, et qui ne sait pas les provoquer ne sait pas vivre.

marguerite yourcenar

— Leisure moments: each life well regulated has some such intervals, and he who cannot make way for them does not know how to live.
— p. 43

Tags: moments, libres, Toute, bien, rgle, sait

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A la fin tu es las de ce monde ancien Bergère ô tour Eiffel le troupeau des ponts bêle ce matin Tu en as assez de vivre dans l'antiquité grecque et romaine

guillaume apollinaire

— At last you're tired of this elderly world
Shepherdess O Eiffel Tower this morning the bridges are bleating
You're fed up living with antiquity
"Zone", line 1; translation from Donald Revell (trans.) Alcools (Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press, 1995) p. 3.

Tags: fin, monde, ancien, tour, Eiffel, ponts, matin, assez, romaine

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Qui peut vivre infâme est indigne du jour.

pierre corneille

— He who can live in infamy is unworthy of life.Don Diègue, act I, scene v

Tags: indigne, jour

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L’on peut me réduire à vivre sans bonheur, Mais non pas me résoudre à vivre sans honneur.

pierre corneille

— I can be forced to live without happiness,
But I will never consent to live without honor.Don Gomès, act II, scene i

Tags: me, bonheur, Mais, honneur

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L'amour aussi bien que le feu ne peut subsister sans un mouvement continuel; et il cesse de vivre dès qu'il cesse d'espérer ou de craindre.

françois de la rochefoucauld

— Neither love nor fire can subsist without perpetual motion; both cease to live so soon as they cease to hope, or to fear.
Maxim 75.

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Chère amie, ne savez-vous pas que la vertu est un état de guerre, et que, pour y vivre, on a toujours quelque combat à rendre contre soi?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

— Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it means one always has some battle to wage against oneself.
Julie ou la Nouvelle Héloïse (French), Sixième partie, Lettre VII Réponse (1761)
Julie, or The New Heloise (English), Part Six, Letter VII Response, pg 560

Tags: Chre, amie, savezvous, que, vertu, tat, guerre, pour, toujours

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Pour exécuter de grandes choses, il faut vivre comme si on ne devait jamais mourir.

vauvenargues, luc de clapiers, marquis de

— In order to achieve great things, we must live as though we were never going to die.Quoted in Queers in History : The Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Historical Gays (2009), by Keith Stern, p. 466.

Tags: Pour, excuter, grandes, choses, comme, devait, mourir

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Pour exécuter de grandes choses, il faut vivre comme si on ne devait jamais mourir. 8 To accomplish great things we must live as though we had never to die.

vauvenargues, luc de clapiers, marquis de

— p.172. (Reflections and Maxims (1746))

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La pensée de la mort nous trompe, car elle nous fait oublier de vivre.

vauvenargues, luc de clapiers, marquis de

— The thought of death deceives us; for it causes us to neglect to live.
p. 172.

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Tel homme qui dans un excès de mélancolie se tue aujourd’hui aimerait à vivre s’il attendait huit jours.

voltaire

— The man, who in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week."Cato" (1764).

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Heureux, qui comme Ulysse, a fait un beau voyage, Ou comme cestuy la'   qui conquit la toison, Et puis est retourne  , plein d'usage et raison, vivre entre ses parents le reste de son a"  ge! Happy is he who, like Ulysses, has taken a wondrous journey Or has won the Golden Fleece, And then returns home wise and useful To live in his homeland the rest of his days.

Joachim du Bellay

— 1558  Les Regrets, no.31.

Tags: Heureux, comme, fait, beau, voyage, puis, retourne, plein, d'usage

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Life is a horizontal fall.

jean cocteau

— Vivre est une chute horizontale. 1930  Opium.

Tags: Life, horizontal, fall

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