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"The wisdom of age: don't stop walking."
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"Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends."
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"Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera."
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"Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth."
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"The lonely become either thoughtful or empty."
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"Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame."
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"The wisdom of age: don't stop walking."

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"Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends."

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"Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera."

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"Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth."

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"The lonely become either thoughtful or empty."

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"Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame."

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"Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences."

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"Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation."

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"Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology."

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"If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting."

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"People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art."

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"Art seduces, but does not exploit."

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"Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?"

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"Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining."

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"A sense of blessedness comes from a change of heart, not from more blessings."

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"Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better."

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"Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed."

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"In every death, a busy world comes to an end."

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"Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life."

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"As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance."

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"I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy."

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"Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind."

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"Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it."

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"Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying."

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"Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty."

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"Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity."

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"While there's life, there's fear."

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"Money is to my social existence what health is to my body."

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"Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences."

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"Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it."

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"Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty."

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"Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future."

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"Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness."

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"Money is to my social existence what health is to my body."

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"Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort."

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"Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word."

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"Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed."

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"Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little."

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"Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it."

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"Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future."

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"Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are."

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"Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm."

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"Money: power at its most liquid."

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"Sincerity: willingness to spend one's own money."

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"Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does."

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"Money is to my social existence what health is to my body."

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"The passion for money is never fickle."

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"To understand someone, find out how he spends his money."

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"Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort."

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"Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage."

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"The only peace is being out of earshot."

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"A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats."

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"Even cats grow lonely and anxious."

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"Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it."

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"Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content."

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"The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed."

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"Money: power at its most liquid."

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"Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?"

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"Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love."

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"Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm."

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"Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage."

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"After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success."

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"When I prayed for success, I forgot to ask for sound sleep and good digestion."

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"If success is a habit, it is a hard one to acquire."

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"The time I kill is killing me."

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"Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining."

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"Young poets bewail the passing of love old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference."

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"Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time."

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"The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds."

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"I'm being treated like a sex object, cried the lady. No matter. I will take care of it, said Time soothingly."

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"Travelers never think that they are the foreigners."

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"Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love."

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