"Living is the same thing as dying. Living well is the same thing as dying for others."

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Source : N. D. Wilson (2013). “Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent”, p.84, Thomas Nelson

N.D. Wilson

#Dying Quotes #Live Well Quotes #Wells Quotes

“You have typewriters, presses. And a huge audience. How about raising hell?”
“I didn't fall in love with acting until I did a few films. Now, I couldn't live without it.”
“The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.”
“... as usual I am suffering much from doubt as to the worth of what I am doing and fear lest I may not be able to complete it so as to make it a contribution to literature and not a mere addition to the heap of books.”
“[Culture] denotes an historically transmitted pattern of meanings embodied in symbols, a system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic forms, by means of which men communicate, perpetuate, and develop their knowledge about and attitudes toward life.”

Source : Clifford Geertz (1973). “The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays”, p.89, Basic Books
“What has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity save and except this institution of Slavery?”
“While photography to Cartier-Bresson is constantly an intuitive process, it is never purely instinctive. It is founded on continuous intellection, on ceaseless consideration during all moments previous to, or preparatory for, the pressing. It does not only operate in the blinding flash of a moment seized; it works all the time. The snatched picture merely cuts across the vein of observable incident or accident which is always beating, whether or not the fingers actually press.”
“I'm trying to figure out if I love art enough to be poor.”

Source : Marina Keegan (2014). “The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories”, p.189, Simon and Schuster

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