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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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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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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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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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It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure in the future. Often ...more

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On the earth, satellite of a star speeding through space, living things had arisen under the influence of conditions which were part of the planet's h...more

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What did it all mean? He thought of his own life, the high hopes with which he had entered upon it, the limitations which his body forced upon him, hi...more

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I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create...more

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I do not attachany exaggerated importance to my poetical works. Life isthere to be lived rather than to be written about. My aimis to search out the m...more