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German fashion designer 1933–2019Related quotes
“If you cannot live alone, you were born a slave.”
Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet
Ibid.
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Se te é impossível viver só, nasceste escravo.
“Freedom is the possibility of isolation… If you can't live alone, you were born a slave.”
Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher
A liberdade é a possibilidade do isolamento... Se te é impossível viver só, nasceste escravo.
The Book of Disquietude, trans. Richard Zenith, text 283
Ted Dekker (1962) American writer
Source: Blessed Child
“You only live twice:
Once when you are born
And once when you look death in the face.”
Ian Fleming book You Only Live Twice
Source: You Only Live Twice (1964), Ch. 11 : Anatomy Class
“You have no birthday because you have always lived; you were never born, and never will die.”
Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer
There's No Such Place As Far Away (1978)
Context: You have no birthday because you have always lived; you were never born, and never will die. You are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow-adventurer on a bright journey to understand the things that are.
“When you learn how to die, you learn how to live.”
Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie
Tuesdays with Morrie (1997)
“Consider your origin;
you were not born to live like brutes,
but to follow virtue and knowledge.”
Dante Alighieri book Inferno
Canto XXVI, lines 118–120.
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno