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

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

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

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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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Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

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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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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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