To live without loving is, properly speaking, not to live at all.[Et vivre sans aimer n’est pas proprement vivre.]
To live is to experience things, not sit around pondering the meaning of life.
To live is to be hunted.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
To live in a great idea means to treat the impossible as though it were possible. It is just the same with a strong character; and when an idea and a character meet, things arise which fill the world with wonder for thousands of years.
To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
To discover the mode of life or of art whereby your spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom.
To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.
To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great or rational whether in life or in science.
To be alive at all is to have scars.
To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.
