Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

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For a moment I had a strange intuition that just this, and in a real, profound sense, is life; and perhaps happiness even - love with a mixture of sadness, reverence, and silent knowledge.

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With blinded eyes I stared at the sky, this grey, endless sky of a crazy god, who had made life and death for his amusement.

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Everyone saves someone at least once. Just as he kills someone at least once. Even though he may not know it.

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We have our dreams because without them we could not bear the truth.

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We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.

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No matter how improbable an assertion is, if it is made with enough assurance it has an affect. Erich Maria Remarque

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But probably that's the way of the world - when we have finally learned something we're too old to apply it - and so it goes, wave after wave, generation after generation. No one learns anything at all from anyone else.

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Every little bean must be heard as well as seen!

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Never do anything complicated when something simple will serve as well. It's one of the most important secrets of living.

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