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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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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Every little bean must be heard as well as seen!

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

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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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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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