“We're all alive, but we don't know why or what for; we're all searching for happiness; we're all leading lives that are different and yet the same.”

— Anne Frank

6 July 1944
Variant translation: We all live with the objective of being happy, our lives are all different and yet the same.
(1942 - 1944)

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victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary 1929–1945

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2009-05-14
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/may/14/peter-hitchens-interview

“some men never
die
and some men never
live

but we're all alive
tonight.”

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Comments on her work in Time of the Comet http://www.masielalusha.com/projects/comet.php

“We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.”

Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary

“The secret story is the one we'll never know, although we're living it from day to day, thinking we're alive, thinking we've got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn't matter. But every single damn thing matters! Only we don't realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, and we don't realize that's a lie.”

Roberto Bolaño book Last Evenings on Earth

Dentist
Last Evenings on Earth (2006)

“We're all alive, but we don't know why or what for; we're all searching for happiness; we're all leading lives that are different and yet the same.”

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