“As fish cannot live without water, so guerrillas cannot live without the people.”
With the century, vol. 5
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President of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea 1912–1994Related quotes
Hope, Despair, and Memory (1986)
“Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.”
Source: "Die Menschen können nicht ohne Hoffnung leben" (one of his last interviews), Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung (February 11, 2002)
“I cannot live without books.”
Letter to John Adams (10 June 1815)
1810s
Speaking & Features, Standing Up To Goliath
Source: Reason and Hope: Selections from the Jewish Writings of Hermann Cohen (1971), p. 5
“Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
“Work without Hope draws nectar in a sieve,
And Hope without an object cannot live.”
Source: Work Without Hope (1825), l. 9.
Context: Bloom, O ye Amaranths! bloom for whom ye may,
For me ye bloom not! Glide, rich streams, away!
With lips unbrightened, wreathless brow, I stroll:
And would you learn the spells that drowse my soul?
Work without Hope draws nectar in a sieve,
And Hope without an object cannot live.
“Only the dead have discovered what they cannot live without.”
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Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)