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

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

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

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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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