“Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.”
Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …
“It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.”
— Gaston Bachelard, book The Poetics of Space
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