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The tragedy of life is that sometimes we get what we want.

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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.

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He was terribly conscious that he only had one life and it seemed to sad to think that he had wasted it. He could never surmount his immeasurable regr...more

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It gives him spiritual freedom. To him life is a tragedy and by his gift of creation he enjoys the catharsis a purging of pity and terror, Which Arist...more

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Patsy had asked him if he had had adventures in Paris and he had truthfully answered no. It was a fact that he had done nothing; his father thought he...more

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A little smoke lost in the air, that was the life of a man.

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Milk is very nice, especially with a drop of brandy in it, but the domestic cow is only too glad to be rid of it. A swollen udder is very uncomfortabl...more

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He was terribly conscious that he only had one life and with seemed to sad to think that he had wasted it. He could never surmount his immeasurable re...more

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It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

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The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one ...more

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If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

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I began to meditate upon the writer's life. It is full of tribulation. First he must endure poverty and the world's indifference; then, having achieve...more

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And if I am not mistaken here is the secret of the greatness that was Spain. In Spain it is men that are the poems, the pictures and the buildings. Me...more