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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Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

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

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

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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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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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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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Every little bean must be heard as well as seen!

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