
Part i, canto ii.
Lucile (1860)
Selected Poems 1976-1986 (1987), Marrying the Hangman
Context: To live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live
without mirrors is to live without the self. She is
living selflessly, she finds a hole in the stone wall and
on the other side of the wall, a voice. The voice
comes through darkness and has no face. This voice
becomes her mirror.
Part i, canto ii.
Lucile (1860)
Sovereign Maxims
Context: It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and honorably and justly, and it is impossible to live wisely and honorably and justly without living pleasantly. Whenever any one of these is lacking, when, for instance, the man is not able to live wisely, though he lives honorably and justly, it is impossible for him to live a pleasant life. (5)
“As fish cannot live without water, so guerrillas cannot live without the people.”
With the century, vol. 5
“Libya lived for 5000 years without oil and it is ready to live another 5000 years without it.”
Quote from oil fields nationalisation speech.
Source: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-12688033
“I can be forced to live without happiness,
But I will never consent to live without honor.”
L’on peut me réduire à vivre sans bonheur,
Mais non pas me résoudre à vivre sans honneur.
Don Gomès, act II, scene i.
Le Cid (1636)
“But do we really live? To live without knowing what life is - is that living?”
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“Can I live a life, daily life, without sense of self-concern?”
4th Public Talk, Saanen, Switzerland (25 July 1971)
1970s
“How can we live without our lives? How will we know it’s us without our past?”
Source: The Grapes of Wrath (1939)