Activity does not necessarily mean life.
Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
Academic life is a mad hazard.[Das akademische Leben ist also ein wilder Hazard.]
A woman’s life is nine parts mess to one part magic, you’ll learn that soon enough… and the parts that look like magic often turn out to be messiest of all.
A woman’s life begins with her first passion.[La vie d’une femme commence à sa première passion.]
A whole lifetime was too short to bring out, now that one had acquired the power, the full flavour; to extract every ounce of pleasure, every shade of meaning; which both were so much more solid than they used to be, so much less personal.
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.
A person doesn’t get enough good surprises in life.
A mystery, and a dream, should my early life seem.
A miracle worker is an artist of the soul. There’s no higher art than living a good life.
A man might spend his life peering at the private life of elementary particles and then find he either knew who he was or where he was, but not both.
A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.
