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Dame Rebecca West
: Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
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As regards the celebrated struggle for life, it seems to me for the present to have been rather asserted than proved. It does occur, but as the exception; the general aspect of life is not hunger and distress, but rather wealth, luxury, even absurd prodigality -- where there is a struggle it is a struggle for power.
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The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great deal of reward I have gained coming to that understanding -- that existence is a struggle.
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A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.
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Struggle...struggle...to the end!
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I have always struggled to achieve excellence. One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something without a struggle it's not going to be satisfying.
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It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born to, and then to learn something of the value of those limits.
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Albert Camus :
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The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
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In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.
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Thornton Wilder :
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I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for -- whether it's a field, or a home, or a country.
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How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived?
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People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.
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Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy but after a war it seems more like astrology.
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The point is that nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.
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God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.
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Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized by a madness which forces them to commit the very acts which made it certain that what they dread shall happen.
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There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.
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Journalism is the ability to meet the challenge of filling space.
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Man is a hating rather than a loving animal.
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If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: "It seemed a good idea at the time."
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