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

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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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Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

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Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so t...more

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Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.

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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