30 Lya Luft phrases that praise the works of this great writer

Time does not exist: everything boils down to the moment. The before that is a river that flows, but does not pass.

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The balance of the scale depends a lot on what we know and want to see.

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We are aboard a large ship, in an uncertain sea, scared and insecure.

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One thing I knew: I was an amateur of people and of books.

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A truer life, we will have begun to change the world. And if we can’t change the world, we can change, however little, our stance on it—or maybe we get carried away. Not deciding anything is also a possible decision.

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All my life I searched for explanations and decipherments: I found silence and secrecy, sometimes the comfort of a shoulder, sometimes pain.

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There are people who, instead of destroying, build; instead of envying, he gives gifts; instead of poisoning, it beautifies; instead of tearing apart, it gathers and aggregates.

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My present is so empty. Conflict, no matter how small, wears me out too much these days.

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The easy can be uninteresting, and we deserve to at least sometime do, want, be, the interesting.

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To truly live, thinking and rethinking existence, for it to be worthwhile, it is necessary to be loved; and love; and love yourself.

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My father used to say: for those who believe, everything exists.

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Life doesn’t just weave a web of losses, but provides us with a succession of gains.

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Life, like fiction, is a theater of folly… On the edge of the stage, like stars, I hang words: this is my destiny.

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Because between yes and no it’s just a breath, between good and bad just a thought, between life and death just a light shaking of cloths.

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Those golden years taught me to love better, with more patience and no less ardor.

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May the least that we do be, at each moment, the best that we managed to do.

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We have difficulty dealing with silence: it resonates badly in the emptiness of our interior.

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I don’t want to have to live only in what has been defined as the real.

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If I think I’m worthless, I’m nothing. I will let others speak, decide, live for me.

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I always end up hurting the people I love.

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If each one cultivates affection, beauty and loyalty in his environment, however small, it will spread clarity in the world.

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Nobody knows about anybody: we invent our partnerships.

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For to live should be – to the last thought and the last look – to transform itself.

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To bear without submitting, to accept without humiliating oneself, to surrender without renouncing oneself and one’s possible dignity.

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Each one reinvents themselves, even if without knowing – or without wanting to – each new day.

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This transformation and multiplication of affections would be common, in pain and in joy, if instead of being selfish and confused, we were mature and balanced.

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I am not, nor should I be, Wonder Woman, but only one person: vulnerable and strong, incapable and glorious, frightened and audacious – a woman.

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We want a meaning for our existence, and freedom to exist according to our possibilities.

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People are responsible and innocent in relation to what happens to them, being the authors of most of their choices and omissions.

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If we were aware that we are undergoing transformation, that everything is fleeting and can end in a few minutes – or years, or decades – we would not be able to withstand the pressure.

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