The mark of a living thing is to be involved in opposites (impossibilities): the living cell that has to be continually adapting itself to stay alive, with its identity.
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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
It is the cells which create and maintain in us, during the span of our lives, our will to live and survive, to search and experiment, and to struggle.
The word 'living' has so many connotations that I'm almost reluctant to try to define it scientifically because it sounds as if I'm then downgrading all the other significances of that word.
With all our mastery over the powers of Nature we have adhered to the view that the struggle for existence is a permanent and necessary condition of life.
Life is simply the reification of the process of living.
To do what you wanna do, to leave a mark - in a way that you think is important and lasting - that's a life well-lived.
To be alive as a human being is to know, in the same way as it is to have a heart that beats.
Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.
Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.
I've always felt that there's a point where a piece seems to be alive, that is, living. And that's the point where I know the composition is finished.
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