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

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

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

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