“There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, everyone of them sufficient”
Marilynne Robinson (1943) American novelist and essayist
“If one has no vanity in this life of ours, there is no sufficient reason for living.”
— Leo Tolstoy, book The Kreutzer Sonata
Source: The Kreutzer Sonata (1889), Ch. 23. This is not, as it is often quoted, a stand-alone Tolstoy epigram, but part of the narration by the novella's jealousy-ridden protagonist Pozdnyshev.
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