Panait Istrati
Romanian writer
To fight for an idea, for a feeling, for a passion or for a madness, but to believe in something and to fight, that is what life is about. Whoever does not feel the need for a fight is not living but only vegetating.
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I like to think that the moment I came into this world my first gesture was to embrace the earth.
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There must be souls of celebration that God sends among men in the high days of His eternity.
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It is a terrible thing not to have a friend whom you can tell how happy or sad you are.
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Tell me what you are sacrificing for your ideal and I will tell you if you love it or not.
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Life is worth living only when it makes you yell as if you had been bitten by a viper.
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