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

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To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

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Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

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Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!

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Every little bean must be heard as well as seen!

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