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"To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something."
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"Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old."
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"Very interesting for an old duffer like me to try his hand at something new. If I don't do that once in a while, I might just turn into a fossil, you know!"
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"To be seventy years young is sometimes for more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old."
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"God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings."

"I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me."

"There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say."

"For sin is just this, what man cannot by its very nature do with his whole being; it is possible to silence the conflict in the soul, but it is not possible to uproot it."

"The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings."
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