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The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.

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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.

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Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.

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Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.

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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

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Either life entails courage or it ceases to be life.

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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

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In every remark he found a meaning, but not always the true meaning, and his life, though vivid, was largely a dream.

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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choos...more

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Men were not gods after all, but as human and as clumsy as girls.

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There is only a certain amount of kindness in the world…just as there is a certain amount of light. We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, a...more

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Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.

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Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand.

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The tragedy of preparedness has scarcely been handled, save by the Greeks. Life is indeed dangerous, but not in the way morality would have us believe...more

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We reach in desperation beyond the fog, beyond the very stars, the voids of the universe are ransacked to justify the monster, and stamped with a huma...more