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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Keep things at arm's length. If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.

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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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It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

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Good or ill, life is life; you only realize that when you have to risk it.

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To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

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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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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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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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