“I think that it would be less difficult to live eternally than to be deprived of sleep throughout life.”
Letter to A.S. Suvorin (December 9, 1890)
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Russian dramatist, author and physician 1860–1904Related quotes
“I was sleep-deprived, and I misspoke.”
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Presidential campaign (January 20, 2007 – 2008)
“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?”
Middlemarch (1871)
Context: What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other? I cannot be indifferent to the troubles of a man who advised me in my trouble, and attended me in my illness.
“I drink much less than most people think, and I think much more than most people would believe.”
Source: Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
“I cannot be content with less than heaven;
Living, and comprehensive of all life.”
Festus (1839)
Context: I cannot be content with less than heaven;
Living, and comprehensive of all life.
Thee, universal heaven, celestial all;
Thee, sacred seat of intellective time;
Field of the soul's best wisdom: home of truth,
Star-throned.
“I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.”
[199710120226.TAA06867@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
“I had rather live and love where death is king, than have eternal life where love is not.”
Paraphrased variant: I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
At A Child's Grave (1882)
Context: No man, standing where the horizon of a life has touched a grave, has any right to prophesy a future filled with pain and tears. It may be that death gives all there is of worth to life. If those we press and strain against our hearts could never die, perhaps that love would wither from the earth. Maybe this common fate treads from out the paths between our hearts the weeds of selfishness and hate, and I had rather live and love where death is king, than have eternal life where love is not.
Source: Posted on instagram @angelovulpini, September 2nd, 2021.
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