Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.

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But we are living in a sceptical and, if I may use the phrase, a thought-tormented age: and sometimes I fear that this new generation, educated or hyper-educated as it is, will lack those qualities of humanity, of hospitality, of kindly humour which belonged to an older day.

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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.

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The important thing is not what we write but how we write, and in my opinion the modern writer must be an adventurer above all, willing to take every risk, and be prepared to founder in his effort if need be. In other words we must write dangerously

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Ask no questions and you'll hear no lies.

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Shut your eyes and see.

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

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They lived and laughed and loved and left.

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Absence, the highest form of presence.

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Time's ruins build eternity's mansions.

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