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- A friend loves you for your intelligence, a mistress for your charm, but your family's love is unreasoning; you were born into it and are…
- A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body.
- Almost all great writers have as their motif, more or less disguised, the passage from childhood to maturity, the clash between the thrill of expectation…
- Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
- Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
- Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to…
- If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the…
- Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more humane world.
- Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more human world
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