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"They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more."
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"You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave."
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"Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull."
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"I'll perform all the way to the grave."
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"I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave."
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"I do not choose that my grave should be dug while I am still alive."
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"He is an old bore. Even the grave yawns for him."
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"Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave."
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"I remember in Shallow Grave I remember a few times when we'd only have to do one take. But when you did have to do more than one, you'd build on the one you'd done."
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"If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave."
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"I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist."
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"But there are not two laws, that was the next thing I thought I understood, not two laws, one for the healthy, another for the sick, but one only to which all must bow, rich and poor, young and old, happy and sad. He was eloquent. I pointed out that I was not sad. That was a mistake. Your papers, he said, I knew it a moment later. Not at all, I said, not at all. Your papers! he cried. Ah my papers."
Ethics
"Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity."
Intelligence
"But we know that we are no longer the same, and not only know that we are no longer the same, but know in what we are no longer the same, you wiser but not sadder, and I sadder but not wiser, for wiser I could hardly become without grave personal inconvenience, whereas sorrow is a thing you can keep on adding to all your life long, is it not, like a stamp or egg collection."
Philosophy
"Incontinent the void. The zenith. Evening again. When not night it will be evening. Death again of deathless day. On one hand embers. On the other ashes. Day without end won and lost. Unseen."
Philosophy
"All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead."
Beginning
"There are two moments worthwhile in writing, the one when you start and the other when you throw it in the waste-paper basket."
Writing
"Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned."
Friendship
"Memory and Habit are attributes of the Time cancer. They control the most simple Proustian episode, and an understanding of their mechanism must precede any particular analysis of their application."
Psychology
"There's never an end for the sea."
Nature
"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better."
Persistence
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