100 Life lessons from great writers

By Joel Lynn

Packed with inspiration, thoughtful messages, and words to live by, we love their books, so why not soak up every nugget of wisdom they've got? Learn valuable life-wisdom lessons from the top 100 writers of all time.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bibliomundi
• Release date: Dec 1, 2022
• ISBN: 9781526015730

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I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

— Agatha Christie

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Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE was an English writer. She is known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around her fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.

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You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

— Albert Camus

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Albert Camus was a French philosopher, author, and journalist. His views contributed to the rise of the philosophy known as absurdism. He wrote in his essay The Rebel that his whole life was devoted to opposing the philosophy of nihilism while still delving deeply into individual freedom.

3

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

— Aldous Huxley

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Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and philosopher. He authored nearly fifty books, both novels and non-fiction works, as well as wide-ranging essays, narratives, and poems. Born into the prominent Huxley family, he graduated from Balliol College with an undergraduate degree in English literature.

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A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.

— Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin

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Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature. Pushkin was born into Russian nobility in Moscow.

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Life is a storm. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.

— Alexandre Dumas

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