I hope I am not too old to take it up seriously, nor too stupid about machines to qualify as a commercial pilot. I do not feel like spending the rest of my life writing books that no one will read. It is not as though I wanted to write them.

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My mistakes are my life.

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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust

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Nothing is more real than nothing.

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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.

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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

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I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.

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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.

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Yes, I dont know why, but I have never been disappointed, and I often was in the early days, without feeling at the same time, or a moment later, an undeniable relief.

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If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing.

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