"Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth."
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"In the morning there was a big wind blowing and the waves were running high up on the beach and he was awake a long time before he remembered that his heart was broken."
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"A bottle of wine was good company."
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"Every day above earth is a good day."
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"Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination."
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"No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure."
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"They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure."
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"Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture."
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"I'm with you. No matter what else you have in your head I'm with you and I love you."
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"You cannot stop trusting people in life but I have learned to be a little bit careful. The way to make people trust-worthy is to trust them."
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"Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you."
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"No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
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"All stories, if continued far enough, end in death."
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"There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention."
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"There are worse places to be than on your own."
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"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime."
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"Happiness is often presented as being very dull but, he thought, lying awake, that is because dull people are sometimes very happy and intelligent people can and do go around making themselves and everyone else miserable. He had never found happiness dull. It always seemed more exciting than any other thing and capable of as great intensity as sorrow to those people who were capable of having it."
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"One cat just leads to another."
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"A person with increasing knowledge and sensory education may derive infinite enjoyment from wine."
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"I had an inheritance from my father, It was the moon and the sun. And though I roam all over the world, The spending of it’s never done."
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