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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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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Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

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

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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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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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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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Every little bean must be heard as well as seen!

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

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

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