Life
“Though very little is known about his childhood, for example the date he was born or where he lived as a child, it is known he succeeded to no estate, went to no university, was apprenticed to a 'joiner' by trade, and must have persevered through his apprenticeship and taken up his freedom, as he was referred to in the latter years as a 'joiner'”
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Famous quotes containing the word life:
“Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.”
—Georges Bataille (1897–1962)
“Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)
“When a man’s life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due to other men’s actions or negligence, it is not only his sensibility that suffers but also his aspiration toward the good. Therefore there has been sacrilege towards that which is sacred in him.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)