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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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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Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!

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

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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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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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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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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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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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