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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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Someone said to me once that a cigarette at the right moment is better than all the ideals in the world.
It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.
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.
Never do anything complicated when something simple will serve as well. It's one of the most important secrets of living.
Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.
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.
Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.
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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.
Everyone saves someone at least once. Just as he kills someone at least once. Even though he may not know it.