“A person’s true means of expression is his life. Living the shame of life and maintaining silence, that was the greatest accomplishment of all.”
Liquidation (2003)
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Hungarian writer 1929–2016Related quotes
“But if one should guide his life by true principles, man's greatest riches is to live on a little with contented mind; for a little is never lacking.”
Quod siquis vera vitam ratione gubernet,
divitiae grandes homini sunt vivere parvo
aequo animo; neque enim est umquam penuria parvi.
Lucretius (-94–-55 BC) Roman poet and philosopher
Quod siquis vera vitam ratione gubernet,
divitiae grandes homini sunt vivere parvo
aequo animo; neque enim est umquam penuria parvi.
Book V, lines 1117–1119 (tr. Rouse)
De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things)
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: (it) Essere una persona che racconta costantemente la verità significa essere una persona semplice, libera, vera, concreta e trasparente. Inoltre, significa essere una persona che si semplifica la vita.
Source: prevale.net
Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962) French writer and philosopher
A Retrospective Glance at the Lifework of a Master of Books
Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (1988)
“One must live with all, e'en if life be hell: Crime makes shame, not monetary stricture”
Multatuli book Max Havelaar
Multatuli, Max Havelaar: Or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company
Thomas Mann book The Magic Mountain
Source: The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 2, “At Tienappels’,” (1924), trans. by H.T. Lowe-Porter (1928).
Edward Hopper (1882–1967) prominent American realist painter and printmaker
1941 - 1967
Source: 'Statements by Four artists', Edward Hopper, in 'Reality' 1., Spring 1953, p. 8
