"The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book."
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"I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long periods of time."
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"Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly."
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"We must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day had been."
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"Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate."
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"Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30."
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"For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!"
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"The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves."
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"Don't LIVE the same year 75 times and call it a Life"
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"Are great things ever done smoothly? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show."
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"We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit."
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"Surely in a matter of this kind we should endeavor to do something, that we may say that we have not lived in vain, that we may leave some impress of ourselves on the sands of time."
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"Worlds and particles, bodies and beings, time and space: All are transient expressions of the Tao."
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"Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work."
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"My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all."
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"I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time."
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"Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business."
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"You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long."
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"Most of what we say and do is unnecessary: remove the superfluity, and you will have more time and less bother. So in every case one should prompt oneself: 'Is this, or is it not, something necessary?' And the removal of the unnecessary should apply not only to actions but to thoughts also: then no redundant actions either will follow."
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"All time exists. That is the truth.... If the future did not exist now, how could we journey toward it? If the past does not exist still, how could we leave it behind?"
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