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Let us not take it for granted that life exists more in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.

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Life is a luminous halo a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning.

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This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the...more

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When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?

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A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.

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Why, if one wants to compare life to anything, one must liken it to being blown through the Tube at fifty miles an hour--landing at the other end with...more

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To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it aw...more

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the battered woman--for she wore a skirt--with her right hand exposed, her left clutching at her side, stood singing of love--love which has lasted a ...more

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If you drink the good wine of the noble countess, you have to entertain her less desirable friends.

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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.

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Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

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Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes ...more

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The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through ...more

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How could one leap on the back of life and wring its scruff?