Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey

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The world breaks everyone or nearly everyone, of their childish illusions, assumptions and wishes, often painfully and afterwards due to the personal growth in practical experience, insight and the resulting wisdom many are strong at the broken places just like mended broken bones often are, and some people even have the great insight to be grateful for the purifying fire.

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Live it up so you can write it down.

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I drink to make other people more interesting.

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We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

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The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

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Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

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The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.

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There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

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I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

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