Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
Address in Des Moines, Iowa (4 November 1910)
1910s
“If I have led a pure life.”
LXXVI, line 19
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“The life you have led doesn't need to be the only life you have.”
Anna Quindlen (1952) journalist, Novelist
Flora Thompson (1876–1947) English author and poet
Letter in a private collection quoted in Gillian Lindsay - The Story of the Lark Rise Writer 1990 ISBN 9781873855539
Literary Observations
Abraham Pais (1918–2000) American Physicist
On the fate of his friend Lion Nordheim, who was executed ten days before the end of the war, and his own release at around the same time, p. 52
To Save a Life: Stories of Holocaust Rescue (2000)
Context: On the day we were caught, Lion and I had been talking about writing a memorandum on the fate of the Jewish war children living in hiding or among Dutch families … we were the representatives of the Zionist youth organization. … Lion who had been taking notes of the discussion, put these papers in his jacket pocket when he took a break from lunch. When the Germans caught us they discovered his notes. If those papers had been in my pocket I would have never lived to be seventy. I have led a strange life, a set of complete coincidences.
“Fierce and pure, I was the theater of a fairyland restored to life.”
Jean Genet book The Thief's Journal
The Thief's Journal (1949)
“In my childhood I led the life of a sage, when I grew up I started climbing trees”
Philip Roth book The Ghost Writer
Source: The Ghost Writer
“I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.”
Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist
The Blood of Others [Le sang des autres] (1946)
General sources
Stephen Hawking (1942–2018) British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author
Speech at Macworld Expo in Boston, as quoted in The Daily News (4 August 1994) http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=bD8PAAAAIBAJ&sjid=IoYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4837%2C5338590. A nearly identical quote can be found at the end of the second paragraph of his lecture Life in the Universe http://hawking.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=65 (1996).