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" Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. "

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" Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality. "

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" Learn from your dreams what you lack. "

" Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another. "

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" Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods. "

" We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know. "

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" Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be. "

" Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return. "

" My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain. "

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