“To narrate is to create, for living is just being lived.”

— Fernando Pessoa, book The Book of Disquiet

Ibid.
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Narrar é criar, pois viver é apenas ser vivido.

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Fernando Pessoa288

Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publi… 1888–1935

Philip Murray

Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, Vol. 14 (1952), p. 232

“Perfection belongs to narrated events, not to those we live.”

Primo Levi book The Periodic Table

Source: The Periodic Table

“Creating means living.”

Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman

"The Life of the Shape," p. 23
The Shape (2000), Sequence: “Happiness of Atoms”

“God’s purpose of creating human beings is so that we can live loving God as our bridegroom, our lover.”

Jung Myung Seok (1945) South Korean Leader of New Religious Movement, Poet, Author, Founder of Wolmyeongdong Center

Extracted from the Official English Website on Jung Myung Seok http://jungmyungseok.net/

“They of Poictesme narrate that in the old days when miracles were as common as fruit pies, young Manuel was a swineherd, living modestly in attendance upon the miller's pigs.”

James Branch Cabell book Figures of Earth

Source: Figures of Earth (1921), Ch. I : How Manuel Left the Mire
Context: They of Poictesme narrate that in the old days when miracles were as common as fruit pies, young Manuel was a swineherd, living modestly in attendance upon the miller's pigs. They tell also that Manuel was content enough: he knew not of the fate which was reserved for him.