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Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890) 1853–1890Related quotes
“You can´t live without loving.”
Malcolm Lowry book Under the Volcano
No se puede vivir sin amar.
Source: Under the Volcano (1947), Ch. I (p. 6)
“So dear I love him, that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life.”
John Milton (1608–1674) English epic poet
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831–1891) English statesman and poet
Part i, canto ii.
Lucile (1860)
“Without beauty, love, or danger it would be almost easy to live.”
Albert Camus (1913–1960) French author and journalist
Review of Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre, published in the newspaper Alger Républicain (20 October 1938), p. 5; also quoted in Albert Camus and the Philosophy of the Absurd (2002) by Avi Sagi, p. 43
Context: It is the failing of a certain literature to believe that life is tragic because it is wretched.
Life can be magnificent and overwhelming — that is its whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would be almost easy to live. And M. Sartre's hero does not perhaps give us the real meaning of his anguish when he insists on those aspects of man he finds repugnant, instead of basing his reasons for despair on certain of man's signs of greatness.
The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken as their starting point. It is not this discovery that is interesting, but the consequences and rules of action drawn from it.
Rachel Hawthorne (1950) American author
Source: Waking Up With the Duke
“Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.”
Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature
