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"But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to."
"The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth."
"Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing."
"The great things in life are what they seem to be. And for that reason, strange as it may sound to you, often are very difficult to interpret (understand). Great passions are for the great of souls. Great events can only be seen by people who are on a level with them. We think we can have our visions for nothing. We cannot. Even the finest and most self-sacrificing visions have to be paid for. Strangely enough, that is what makes them fine."
"If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture."
"It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give a really unbiased opinion, which is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always absolutely valueless."
"Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys."
"The basis of optimism is sheer terror."
"She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret."
"Nature is a wet place where large numbers of ducks fly overhead uncooked."
"Where there is no love there is no understanding."
"A passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young."
"Children start out loving their parents, but as they grow older and discover their parents are human, they become judgmental. And sometimes, when they mature, they forgive their parents, especially when they discover they are also human."
"Wisdom is to have dreams big enough not to lose sight when we pursue them."
"The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork."
"To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect."
"There is one thing infinitely more pathetic than to have lost the woman one is in love with, and that is to have won her and found out how shallow she is!"
"The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is."
"I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse."
"I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction."