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

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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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