Someone said to me once that a cigarette at the right moment is better than all the ideals in the world.

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

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Every little bean must be heard as well as seen!

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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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Sometimes I used to think that one day i should wake up, and all that had been would be over. forgotten, sunk, drowned. Nothing was sure - not even memory.

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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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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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Mirrors are there when we are and yet they never give anything back to us but our own image. Never, never shall we know what they are when they are alone or what is behind them.

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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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