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/ page 843 of 1205 /We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.
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I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.
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Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.
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Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.
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Truth disappears with the telling of it.
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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
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No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
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There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.
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A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants.
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It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.
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It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.
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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
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Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
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Genius is talent set on fire by courage.
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What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.
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It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with.
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A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.
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Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
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There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening.
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Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest.
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