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" Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control. "

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" We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving. "

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" Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you. "

" Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature. "

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" The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife. "

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" No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning. "

" No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, - something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book. "

" As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers. "

" The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above. "

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