„Despite everything, life is full of beauty and meaning.“

— Etty Hillesum

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„Isn't it bewildering … that everything is so beautiful, despite all the horrors that exist?“
— Sophie Scholl
„Beauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty — it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life — froze it.“
— Virginia Woolf
„Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression and violence, and enjoy it to the full.“
— Leon Trotsky
„My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren't with me I haven't a thing in the world.“
— Ernest Hemingway
„In those early amorphous years of life, when memory had only just begun, when life was full of Beginnings and no Ends, and everything was Forever“
— Arundhati Roy
„A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise… Because that is how life is — full of surprises.“
— Isaac Bashevis Singer