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...
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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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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure
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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...
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Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
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By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world...
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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...
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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 ...
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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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I’ll be blasted’, he said, ‘if I ever write another word, or try to write another word, to please Nick Greene or the Muse. Bad, good, or indifferent, ...
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Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
