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A state of conscience is higher than a state of innocence.
A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.
One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.
Desire projected itself visually: his fancy, not quite yet lulled since morning, imaged the marvels and terrors of the manifold earth.
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
One ought to go to a funeral instead of to church when one feels the need of being uplifted. People have on good black clothes, and they take off their hats and look at the coffin, and behave serious and reverent, and nobody dares to make a bad joke.
Habituation is a falling asleep or fatiguing of the sense of time; which explains why young years pass slowly, while later life flings itself faster and faster upon its course.
In all humanism there is an element of weakness, which in some circumstances may be its ruin, connected with its contempt of fanaticism, its patience, its love of scepticism; in short, its natural goodness.
If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
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I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.
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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.
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