They lived and laughed and loved and left.

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But we are living in a sceptical and, if I may use the phrase, a thought-tormented age: and sometimes I fear that this new generation, educated or hyper-educated as it is, will lack those qualities of humanity, of hospitality, of kindly humour which belonged to an older day.

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Absence, the highest form of presence.

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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.

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Ask no questions and you'll hear no lies.

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The important thing is not what we write but how we write, and in my opinion the modern writer must be an adventurer above all, willing to take every risk, and be prepared to founder in his effort if need be. In other words we must write dangerously

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Time's ruins build eternity's mansions.

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Fall if you will, but rise you must.

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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.

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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.

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