The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.

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Everyone has, inside himself ... what shall I call it? A piece of good news! Everyone is ... a very great, very important character.

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We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance, we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned.

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Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.

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Behind everything we feel, there is always a sense of fear.

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Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.

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Justice! Custodian of the world! But since the world errs, justice must be custodian of the world's errors.

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When I say "I," I mean a thing absolutely unique, not to be confused with any other.

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Nature is honest, we aren't; we embalm our dead.

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Killing time is the chief end of our society.

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