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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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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Every little bean must be heard as well as seen!

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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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With blinded eyes I stared at the sky, this grey, endless sky of a crazy god, who had made life and death for his amusement.

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

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

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