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Waves, once they land on the beach, are not reversible.
There is a long time in me between knowing and telling.
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
Happiness is never really so welcome as changelessness.
All wars are planned by old men in council rooms apart.
Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
Sometimes I think I'm liquefying like an old Camembert.
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing
Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
It's no use locking the door after the steed is stolen.
it matters infinitely less what we do than what we are.
A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.
Did you ever see anyone shot by a gun without bleeding?
We never choose anything at all. Things happen. Or not.
If you're young and talented, it's like you have wings.
But metaphors help eliminate what separates you and me.
Mediocrity's like a spot on a shirt—it never comes off.
Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.
Growing older is mandatory, but growing up is optional.
Could you get O positive this time? That's my favorite.
Wherever we are, it is our friends that make our world.
Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.
Property in land is as indefensible as property in man.
Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.
Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
It was only in my forties that I started feeling young.
It is no accident that propels people like us to Paris.
We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.
The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.
Memory isn't a theme; it's part of the human condition.
Making something of loss is, on some level, satisfying.
In the school of the woods, there is no graduation day.
Sociology, the guilty science, functions best by alarm.
People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.
I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.
There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.
When you finish a film, you never want to see it again.
No matter what the subject, the subject is always love.
The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.
Nothing tends so much to enlarge the mind as traveling.
A man does what he can; a woman does what a man cannot.
Be careful what you ask of Heaven; it might be granted.
Someone has said that conversation is sex for the soul.
Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so.
Some people you shouldn't kid, even if they deserve it.
We are never late. We arrive precisely when we mean to.