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We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.

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Never do anything complicated when something simple will serve as well. It's one of the most important secrets of living.
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.
It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.
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.
Every little bean must be heard as well as seen!
Sometimes I used to think that one day i should wake up, and all that had been would be over. forgotten, sunk, drowned. Nothing was sure - not even memory.
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.
Good or ill, life is life; you only realize that when you have to risk it.
No matter how improbable an assertion is, if it is made with enough assurance it has an affect. Erich Maria Remarque
Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.