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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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We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.
Everyone saves someone at least once. Just as he kills someone at least once. Even though he may not know it.
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.
Someone said to me once that a cigarette at the right moment is better than all the ideals in the world.
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.
Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!
We have our dreams because without them we could not bear the truth.
Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.
Every little bean must be heard as well as seen!
No matter how improbable an assertion is, if it is made with enough assurance it has an affect. Erich Maria Remarque